was unsticking

• past progressive

  past progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.

  of unstick.
  unstick

  verb (used with object)

  to free, as one thing stuck to another.

Related Words

• alleviate
• break up
• ease
• loose
• relax
• slacken
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