to unglue
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3.5
- verb
- /ʌŋˈɡluː/
:
despegar
- What would happen if I unglued it?
And so if some people smashed the pedal hard enough with their foot, it actually unglued it and like tore off.
- And so if some people smashed the pedal hard enough with their foot, it actually unglued it and like tore off.
Examples
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And so if some people smashed the pedal hard enough with their foot, it actually unglued it and like tore off.
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My tongue got stuck against my palate, and I could hardly unglue it.
Fiction book (1997) -
Undo it, unglue it!
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I'm doing like, I don't want any splice to unglue while I'm scanning it.
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Sabrina rises from a stream and unglues, unglues the lady from her seat.
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Evidently on the last launch, a tube came unglued and spilled urine onto fans beneath the floor.
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Can you unglue the stickers from the book cover without damaging it?
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I needed to unglue the two pages that had accidentally stuck together.
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He carefully tried to unglue the model pieces that had bonded too tightly.
Synonyms
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4.0
To come apart from something it is connected to
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5.3
To disconnect two things that are joined, often machine parts
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6.7
Disconnect parts that were joined so they work independently
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3.9
To come away from something it was stuck to
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6.1
To separate something from what it is connected to
Take something off a wall or surface
Antonyms
How Detached
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unglue is made of un- meaning 'remove' and glue, so it literally means 'take the glue away'. That's why to unglue something is to separate pieces that were stuck together.