ungluing

Releasing adhesive bonds

Ungluing is the process of separating things that were glued together, or the state of coming unstuck.

Figuratively, it describes emotional or mental disintegration: She's completely ungluing under the pressure.

Someone who is coming unglued is losing composure or falling apart.

physical

unsticking

Separating adhered surfaces

detachingUnfastening from attachment
looseningReducing tightness or tension
unfasteningOpening what was secured

peeling · separating · releasing · removing · extricating · disentangling · uncoupling · disengaging · unhitching · unfixing

emotional

detaching

Unfastening from attachment

releasingAllowing to escape
separatingDividing into parts
distancingCreating space or separation

disengaging · untethering · disentangling · withdrawing · decoupling · processing · healing · boundaries · independence · closure

liberation

freeing

Releasing from confinement

liberationRelease from constraint
emancipationRelease from legal bondage
releasingAllowing to escape

escaping · unsticking · extricating · unshackling · unbinding · unleashing · empowerment · autonomy · independence · self-determination

Opposites

adhesion/attachment

ungluinggluing

Fastening with adhesive

adhering · bonding · sticking · affixing · cementing

assembly/disassembly

ungluingassembling

Fitting parts together

holding together · constructing · building · joining · piecing together

emotional composure

ungluingcomposing

Creating musical works

steadying · calming · stabilizing · centering · grounding

Family

glue, glued, gluey, gluing, unglued, unglue, reglue, unglues, reglues

Familiarity: Top 500,000
Profile: Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G