Meaning

1 senses

  1. (idiomatic)To cause injury, distress, or inconvenience to someone, especially as punishment or as a comeuppance.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. I'll fix your wagon.

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  2. Stop that, or I'll fix your wagon.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

From an archaic sense of fix, "to fix in place, render unable to move", which survives in

From an archaic sense of fix, "to fix in place, render unable to move", which survives in the word affix.

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Forms

fixes someone's wagon, fixing someone's wagon, fixed someone's wagon, fixed someone's wagon
Base formfix someone's wagon · to fix someone's wagon
3rd person singularfixes someone's wagon
Present participlefixing someone's wagon
Past simplefixed someone's wagon
Past participlefixed someone's wagon

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfix someone's wagon
he, she, itfixes someone's wagon

Past simpleLesson

all personsfixed someone's wagon

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave fixed someone's wagon
he, she, ithas fixed someone's wagon

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill fix someone's wagon

Synonyms

23 synonyms
correctB2penalizeB2punishB1give someone what forteach someone a lessonamercecastigatechastenchastisecome down onhave someone's guts for gartershave someone's headhave someone's hidegive it to someone

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
fiveA1fiverfixB1fixablefixatefixationfixer
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