disobstruct
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To clear away an obstruction.
Example Sentences
- "Instead of measuring time and life in snatching at rags, let us counsel together to disobstruct the sources of riches, and organise industry, domestic labours, agricultural, manufacturing, — all the labours that produce wealth."
- "Treatment is largely supportive (nasogastric suction, antibiotics, parenteral fluids and electrolytes); saline washouts of the colon and colostomy to disobstruct the bowel are the only definitive measures to arrest this complication."
- "I hope to show that their very existence is functional: they are involved ( they were born to become involved ) in a ritual action designed to disobstruct the ascendancy to kingship of their half-brother Alfonso, rey niño, ten-year- old heir to the throne vacated by Duarte."
- "However, only nine patients in the control group did not disobstruct spontaneously and these were compared to 52 patients in whom disobstruction was spontaneous or therapeutically achieved."