disobstruct

From dis- +‎ obstruct.

disobstruct (third-person singular simple present disobstructs, present participle disobstructing, simple past and past participle disobstructed)

1. To clear away an obstruction.
   • 1969, New Moral World - Volume 5, page 175:

     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.

   • 1975, Peter Paul Rickham, Robert T. Soper, Urs G. Stauffer, Synopsis of Pediatric Surgery, page 151:

     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.

   • 1979, Revista hispánica moderna - Volume 40, page 17:

     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.

   • 2008, Giuseppe Borzellino, Claudio Cordiano, Biliary Lithiasis, page 387:

     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.