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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


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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 heels of my boots, my polished boots, point to the upper air—ay, point; but when, oh, when again, shall I salute thee, gentle air; when again, unchoked by the saline flood, cry Veni aura?

From Old New Zealand A Tale of the Good Old Times; and A History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 by A Pakeha Maori

Together, very cautiously, they explored the three sides of the platform still unchoked by ruins.

From Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England

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

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 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 Jules Verne

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