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unstuck

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un·stuck  (n-stk)
v.
Past tense and past participle of unstick.
adj.
Freed from being stuck.
Idiom:
come/become unstuck
To break down or fall apart: a marriage that came unstuck after only a year.

unstuck
Adjective
1. freed from being stuck, glued, or fastened
2. come unstuck to suffer failure or disaster
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.unstuckunstuck - free; "a man with a mule got my car unstuck"; "the gears locked in second and would not come unstuck"
stuck - caught or fixed; "stuck in the mud"
2.unstuck - thrown into a state of disorganization or incoherence; "price programs became unstuck because little grain was available"
disorganised, disorganized - lacking order or methodical arrangement or function; "a disorganized enterprise"; "a thousand pages of muddy and disorganized prose"; "she was too disorganized to be an agreeable roommate"
Translations
Spanish unstuck [ʌnˈstʌk] adj to come unstuck → despegarse;
(fig) → fracasar

French unstuck [ʌnˈstʌk] adj to come unstuck → se décoller (fig); faire fiasco
German unstuck [ʌnˈstʌk] adj to come unstuck (label etc) → sich lösen (fig) (plan, idea etc) → versagen
Italian unstuck [ʌnˈstʌk] adj to come unstuck → scollarsi;
(fig) → fare fiasco

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Someone moved from the window, and a minute or two later there was the sound of the passage door as it came unstuck, then the latch of the outside door clicked and a tall white-bearded peasant, with a sheepskin coat thrown over his white holiday shirt, pushed his way out holding the door firmly against the wind, followed by a lad in a red shirt and high leather boots.
 
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