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Idioms about block

    put / go on the block, to offer or be offered for sale at auction: to put family heirlooms on the block.

Origin of block

1275–1325; Middle English blok log, stump (<Middle French bloc) <Middle Dutch blok; perhaps akin to balk

OTHER WORDS FROM block

block·a·ble, adjectivere·block, verb (used with object)subblock, nounun·blocked, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH block

bloc, block

Other definitions for block (2 of 2)

Block
[ blok ]
/ blɒk /

noun
Herbert Lawrence Herblock, 1909–2001, U.S. cartoonist.
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How to use block in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for block

block
/ (blɒk) /

noun
verb (mainly tr)

Derived forms of block

blocker, noun

Word Origin for block

C14: from Old French bloc, from Dutch blok; related to Old High German bloh
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Other Idioms and Phrases with block

block

see chip off the old block; knock someone's block off; on the block; stumbling block.

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