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

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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 Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Think of the wonder of that day when the little fountain laughed again, its pipe unchoked and its overflow trickling neatly away under the hidden terra-cotta drains!

From Little Miss By-The-Day by Lucille Van Slyke

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 Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

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