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unchoke

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[uhn-chohk] / ʌnˈtʃoʊk /

verb (used with object)

unchoked, unchoking
  1. to free of obstruction or congestion.


Etymology

Origin of unchoke

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


Example Sentences

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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

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

From Driven Back to Eden by Edward Payson Roe

Then, one day—God knows when—the sky widened behind the trees, and I saw the blue flank of a hill unchoked by timber.

From The Reckoning by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

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

From The Survivors of the Chancellor by Jules Verne

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 George Cary Eggleston

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

From Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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