unchoke

[ uhn-chohk ]

verb (used with object),un·choked, un·chok·ing.
  1. to free of obstruction or congestion.

Origin of unchoke

1
First recorded in 1580–90; un-2 + choke

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How to use unchoke in a sentence

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

    Recollections of a Varied Life | George Cary Eggleston
  • Together, very cautiously, they explored the three sides of the platform still unchoked by ruins.

    Darkness and Dawn | George Allan England
  • We know few places where all the virtues, unchoked by the malefic weeds of vice, grow more luxuriantly.

    Dona Perfecta | B. Perez Galdos
  • Yet these unchoked channels and floodgates of expression are only health or fortunate constitution.

  • Breaking my gun, he slipped the mutilated ammunition into the unchoked barrel.