Synonyms for unblocked
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : uhn-blok |
| Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈblɒk |
Top 10 synonyms for unblocked Other synonyms for the word unblocked
Définition of unblocked
Origin :- "solid piece," c.1300, from Old French bloc "log, block" of wood (13c.), via Middle Dutch bloc "trunk of a tree" or Old High German bloh, from a common Germanic source, from PIE *bhlugo-, from *bhelg- "a thick plank, beam" (see balk).
- Meaning "mould for a hat" is from 1570s. Slang sense of "head" is from 1630s. Extended sense of "obstruction" is first recorded 1640s. In cricket from 1825; in U.S. football from 1912. The meaning in city block is 1796, from the notion of a "compact mass" of buildings; slang meaning "fashionable promenade" is 1869.
- BLOCK. A term applied in America to a square mass of houses included between four streets. It is a very useful one. [Bartlett]
- adj clear
- It'll be five or six ten-days before we can get all that stuff peeled off and get him unblocked.
- Extract from : « Time Crime » by H. Beam Piper
- My eyes were not deceived; here was a second wood-supported passage, unblocked so far as I could perceive, but black as pitch.
- Extract from : « Gordon Craig » by Randall Parrish
Antonyms for unblocked
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