Crossword clues for unglue
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unglue \Un*glue"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + glue.] To separate, part, or open, as anything fastened with glue.
She stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes,
And asks if it be time to rise.
--Swift.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. To separate that which was held by glue.
Usage examples of "unglue".
From a window came the frantic buzz of a fly attempting to unglue itself from a web.
Candy unglue her gaze from the approaching assassins and chance a look toward the water.
He killed some poor bastard he thought was trying to kill him, but it was the wrong guy, and he came unglued as a result.
The backs of my legs made little sucking sounds as they unglued themselves from the plastic upholstery.
As the sun had begun its slow ascent over Lochnagargoyle, he had fallen into a deep and mercifully dreamless sleep that now, as he unglued his face from the pillow, made him too slow-witted and thick-headed to appreciate the generosity of the gift Pandora was offering him.
Marghe felt the ale ungluing her world, slipping it free from its moorings.
I read the body language of the Taurean woman who never comes unglued.
Marghe felt the ale ungluing her world, slipping it free from its moorings.
He found Amanda among the fallen, her head hanging halfway off the edge of the veranda, where she had crawled sometime during the boisterous interminable night, the planks of the floor actually inclining uphill all the way, head changing size with each breath, body bathed in a foul sweat, and quite relieved when the real vomiting finally began, then alarmed when it wouldn't stop, emptiness emptying itself, muscles quaking, tears running freely from her burning eyes, she could hear the pigs under the longhouse rooting excitedly among the unexpected treasures of her stomach, and then nothing until the chimerical voice of her husband, his familiar hand on her shoulder, raising her into his arms, and back to the room with their stuff in it, and when next the lids of her eyes became unglued, Drake was standing over her stark naked but for a filthy scrap of Pekit cloth.
Be especially careful if you have any of these personality traits: (a) compulsiveness --perfectionistic, unemotional, over-controlled--because they come unglued when they backslide, (b) dependency--indecisive, clinging--because they go back to drugs when others abandon them, (c) passive-aggressiveness --resistive, procrastinating, blaming--because they drive others away and then can't handle their own anger, (d) self-centeredness --egotistical, pushy--because they don't admit their problems, and (e) rebelliousness --impulsive, antisocial--because they resent anyone offering help.
That's why they called it the descolador-- it unglues the DNA in humans, too.
The Winnebago vibrated over the rough ground as if it was going to come unriveted, unscrewed and unglued.