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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unstick

Unstick \Un*stick"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + stick.] To release, as one thing stuck to another.
--Richardson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unstick

1706, from un- (2) "reverse, opposite of" + stick (v.). Related: Unsticking.

Wiktionary
unstick

vb. To free something from the condition of being stuck (mechanically, emotionally, or with adhesive)

Usage examples of "unstick".

She feels it and grins in the kiss, lips unsticking from mine, the faintest scrape of teeth on teeth and the grate of a chuckle deep in her throat.

The pool covered the entire floor of the grotto and its icy rim was little more than a slick, narrow ledge, with nothing to hold onto and no place to pull herself and Bronwyn to dry land if and when she succeeded in unsticking her.

I kept unsticking myself and hitting my head on the ceiling before settling awkwardly back to the ground.

Only to Bethany Beach every summer, and that was not so much a trip as a kind of relocation of home base, with Sarah sunbathing and Ethan joining other Baltimore boys, also relocated, and Macon happily tightening all the doorknobs in their rented cottage or unsticking the windows or-one blissful year-solving a knotty problem he'd discovered in the plumbing.

Professor McGonagall flinched, but Dumbledore, who was unsticking two lemon drops, seemed not to notice.

So he shoves the stick forward and sort of skitters horizontally along the field until the airspeed kicks in under the rotor and unsticks him.