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un·stuck

(ŭn-stŭk′)

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.

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unstuck

(ʌnˈstʌk)

adj

1. freed from being stuck, glued, fastened, etc

2. come unstuck to suffer failure or disaster

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un•stuck

(ʌnˈstʌk)

v.

1. pt. and pp. of unstick.

adj.

2. out of order, control, or coherence; undone: to come unstuck.

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Adj.	1.	unstuck - 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" undone 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

غَيْر مُلْصَقفاشِل

odlepitpohořet

løsne sig

sich auflösen sich in Luft auflösen sich lösen

décoller tomber à l'eau

losnamisheppnast

fallire staccato

atsiklijuoti

atlīmētiesizgāztiesneizdoties

ayrılmakbaşarısızlığa uğramakkopmak

失灵的未粘住的

unstuck

[ˈʌnˈstʌk] ADJ to come unstuck [label etc] → despegarse, desprenderse (fig) → fracasar, sufrir un revés
where he comes unstuck is → a él lo que le pierde es ...

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

unstuck

[ʌnˈstʌk] adj

(lit) to come unstuck [poster, stamp] → se décoller

(fig) to come unstuck (= fail) [person, plan, system] → faire fiasco

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

unstuck

adj to come unstuck (stamp, notice) → sich lösen; (inf, plan) → danebengehen (inf), → schiefgehen (inf); (speaker, actor) → stecken bleiben; (pupil: in exam) → ins Schwimmen geraten; the pay policy seems to have come unstuck → die Lohnpolitik scheint aus dem Gleis gekommen zu sein; where they came unstuck was … → sie sind daran gescheitert, dass …

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

unstuck

[ʌnˈstʌk] adj to come unstuck (label) → staccarsi, scollarsi (fam) (plan) → andare a monte, fallire; (person) → fare fiasco

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

unstuck

(anˈstak) : come unstuck

1. to stop sticking. The label has come unstuck.

2. to fail. Our plans have come unstuck.

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