noun
Meaning 1
The removal of a block or blockage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
unblock
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ʌnˈblɒk/
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rhymes with -ɒk
verb
Meaning 2
To remove or clear a block or obstruction from.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- We need a plumber to unblock the sink.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: deobstruct
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To free or make available.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
In whist, to throw away a high card so as not to interrupt one's partner's long suit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: card-games, games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
make (assets) available
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- release the holdings in the dictator's bank account
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unfreeze, free, release
Antonyms: block
Broader terms: issue, supply
verb
Meaning 7
play the cards of (a suit) so that the last trick on which a hand can follow suit will be taken by a higher card in the hand of a partner who has the remaining cards of a combined holding
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: play
verb
Meaning 8
clear or remove an obstruction from
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the procedure unblocked his arteries
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: unstuff, loosen up
History
Etymology
From un- + block.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: освобождавам (osvoboždavam) — to remove obstructions
- Bulgarian: премахвам препятствие (premahvam prepjatstvie) — to remove obstructions
- Catalan: desblocar — to remove obstructions
- Catalan: desbloquejar — to remove obstructions
- Dutch: deblokkeren — to remove obstructions
- Dutch: ontstoppen — to remove obstructions
- French: débloquer — to remove obstructions
- Georgian: განბლოკავს (ganbloḳavs) — to remove obstructions
- Italian: disostruire — to remove obstructions
- Italian: sbloccare — to remove obstructions
- Māori: whakatahe — to remove obstructions
- Māori: whakapara — to remove obstructions
- Polish: odetkać — to remove obstructions
- Portuguese: desbloquear — to remove obstructions
- Serbo-Croatian: deblokírati — to remove obstructions
- Spanish: desbloquear — to remove obstructions
- Bulgarian: деблокирам (deblokiram) — to enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked)
- Catalan: desbloquejar — to enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked)
- Dutch: deblokkeren — to enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked)
- French: débloquer — to enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked)
- Hungarian: felold — to enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked)
- Polish: odblokować — to enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked)
- Spanish: desbloquear — to enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked)
- Swedish: avblockera — to enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked)