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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unclog .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective freed of obstructions
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Examples
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The sirens have quieted, the airwaves are unclogged and there's an unfamiliar calm in the air.
Adjusting to Life Without Tebow Jason Gay 2012
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"I unclogged the drain with a vacuum cleaner," Tom saidsuccinctly.
humor 2010
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It was the beginning of an operation that, by Sunday, had unclogged one bottleneck preventing aid from reaching Haiti's desperate population.
U.S. Air Force steps in to bring order to chaotic air traffic 2010
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So, we need to get everything unclogged and then he will replace the cabinets that were damaged by the water, and our insurance will have to pay for everything.
Leaky soup nathreee 2009
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When streets need to be cleaned or sewers need to be unclogged.
David Murray: How to Know the Real State of the Union: By Reading the State-of-the-Village Speeches David Murray 2011
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Many of these patients have undergone expensive and risky surgeries to have veins unclogged.
MS Study Debunks Blocked-Vein Theory Thomas M. Burton 2011
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The U.S. military estimates that enough rubble to fill six Superdomes must be cleared, muck-filled drains unclogged, transitional houses designed and hundreds of thousands of traumatized tent-dwellers persuaded to return to their homes or resettle far away.
In Haiti, Relief Groups Race Against Rain Miriam Jordan 2010
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The U.S. military estimates that enough rubble to fill six Superdomes must be cleared, muck-filled drains unclogged, transitional houses designed and hundreds of thousands of traumatized tent-dwellers persuaded to return to their homes or resettle far away.
In Haiti, Relief Groups Race Against Rain Miriam Jordan 2010
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The U.S. military estimates that enough rubble to fill six Superdomes must be cleared, muck-filled drains unclogged, transitional houses designed and hundreds of thousands of traumatized tent-dwellers persuaded to return to their homes or resettle far away.
In Haiti, Relief Groups Race Against Rain Miriam Jordan 2010
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On an episode of the reality show Undercover Boss, the burly, acerbic boardroom executive struggled with the most ordinary of tasks – answering a phone and taking down an order from a woman who wanted her drains unclogged.
How Undercover Boss raised US unions' ire Andrew Clark in New York 2010
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