unstuck

[ uhn-stuhk ]
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adjective
  1. freed or loosened from being fastened or stuck: When firmly pushed, the door became unstuck.

  2. out of order, control, or coherence; undone: Their well-laid plans came unstuck under pressure.

Origin of unstuck

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How to use unstuck in a sentence

  • It took me a while to figure out I needed closure to get unstuck.

    Magic Johnson: I Survived | Allison Samuels | May 16, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • The leather, being damp, may possibly become unstuck and stretched during this process.

    The Decoration of Leather | Georges de Rcy
  • It came unstuck from the frame with a tiny explosion of dust and a zing like that of the watch, only louder.

    The Moon is Green | Fritz Reuter Leiber
  • Well, at the time of the hatching, this disk becomes unstuck, lifts and allows the new-born Spiders to pass through.

    The Life of the Spider | J. Henri Fabre
  • "Yes, and if we don't get our houses unstuck pretty soon, we'll remember her a long while," said Susan darkly.

  • With a final desperate lunge, Lizzie yielded to my efforts and came unstuck.

British Dictionary definitions for unstuck

unstuck

/ (ʌnˈstʌk) /


adjective
  1. freed from being stuck, glued, fastened, etc

  2. come unstuck to suffer failure or disaster

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Other Idioms and Phrases with unstuck

unstuck

see under come apart at the seams.

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