Fixing meaning : To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix. To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. To mend, to repair. To prepare (food or drink). To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile. (sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself. To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant. To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light. To convert into a stable or available form. To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest. To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance. The act of subverting (fixing) a vote. (usually in the plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (screws, wall plugs, etc) See fixings.