unchoke

American  

[uhn-chohk] / ʌnˈtʃoʊk /

verb (used with object)

unchoked, unchoking

1. to free of obstruction or congestion.

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Etymology

Origin of unchoke

First recorded in 1580–90; un- ² + choke

Example Sentences

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unchoke unchoked

It’s Aug. 14, and the foreman explains what’s being dug: a new road underneath the highway, one that will unchoke the traffic that flows down I-93 from Boston, a project monitored from the foreman’s trailer.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2012

Yet these unchoked channels and floodgates of expression are only health or fortunate constitution.

From Representative Men by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The beets have a chance to grow unchoked, and to get ahead.

From Driven Back to Eden by Roe, Edward Payson

The novel is not made—it grows, and the novelist does little more than plant the seed and keep the growth unchoked by weeds.

From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary

Sometimes they walked down aisles unchoked by brush but full of moving shadows, above which sounded the lonely continuous hooting of the owl.

From The Valiant Runaways by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Like a salamander he passes across the burning deck with unscathed feet, and glides through the stifling smoke with unchoked breath.

From The Survivors of the Chancellor, diary of J.R. Kazallon, passenger by Verne, Jules