"disobstruct" meaning in All languages combined

See disobstruct on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: disobstructs [present, singular, third-person], disobstructing [participle, present], disobstructed [participle, past], disobstructed [past]
Etymology: From dis- + obstruct. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|dis|obstruct}} dis- + obstruct Head templates: {{en-verb}} disobstruct (third-person singular simple present disobstructs, present participle disobstructing, simple past and past participle disobstructed)
  1. To clear away an obstruction. Derived forms: disobstruction

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1969, New Moral World - Volume 5, page 175:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1975, Peter Paul Rickham, Robert T. Soper, Urs G. Stauffer, Synopsis of Pediatric Surgery, page 151:",
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          "ref": "1979, Revista hispánica moderna - Volume 40, page 17:",
          "text": "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.",
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