to unglue

Examples

• All

• And so if some people smashed the pedal hard enough with their foot, it actually unglued it and like tore off.

  WVFRM Podcast

• My tongue got stuck against my palate, and I could hardly unglue it.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Undo it, unglue it!

  The Smurfs 2 (2013)

• I'm doing like, I don't want any splice to unglue while I'm scanning it.

• Sabrina rises from a stream and unglues, unglues the lady from her seat.

• Evidently on the last launch, a tube came unglued and spilled urine onto fans beneath the floor.

• Can you unglue the stickers from the book cover without damaging it?

• I needed to unglue the two pages that had accidentally stuck together.

• He carefully tried to unglue the model pieces that had bonded too tightly.

Synonyms

D

to detach

vsto unglue

9 4.0

To come apart from something it is connected to

is normally used for deliberate separation from adhesive bonds

D

to decouple

vsto unglue

5 6.7

Disconnect parts that were joined so they work independently

is used for physical separation of things stuck together by adhesive

U

to uncouple

vsto unglue

5 5.3

To disconnect two things that are joined, often machine parts

is about separating parts held by adhesive rather than mechanical joins

U

to unstick

vsto unglue

3 3.9

To come away from something it was stuck to

is used when separation is caused by adhesive rather than general fastening

U

to unattach

vsto unglue

1 6.1

To separate something from what it is connected to

is used for separation caused by adhesive rather than by general holding

U

to unfix

vsto unglue

1 6.8

Take something off a wall or surface

is for separating things held by adhesive rather than by fastenings

Antonyms

G

to glue

83 1.0

To join things using a sticky substance

How Detached

to tear off

98 3.0

to detach

23 3.9

to unglue

1 3.5

to unstick

3 3.9

to loosen

185 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology