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deobstructing

deobstructing is the present participle and gerund of deobstruct.

Meaning of deobstruct

Verb

deobstruct (third-person singular simple present deobstructs, present participle deobstructing, simple past and past participle deobstructed)

  1. To clear (something) of obstructions.
    • […] we humbly desire of God […] [that] he will be pleas’d to convey to them [the people of Ireland] the notices of their danger, and their sin, and to deobstruct the passages of necessary truth to them,1664, Jeremy Taylor, A Dissuasive from Popery to the People of Ireland, Dublin: John Crooke, Preface to the Reader
    Synonyms:
    unblock

Questions about deobstructing

What is deobstructing the present participle and gerund of?
Deobstructing is the present participle and gerund of deobstruct.

Words near deobstructing in the dictionary

  1. deobfuscators
  2. deobliquing
  3. Deobra
  4. deobstruct
  5. deobstructed
  6. deobstructing
  7. deobstruction
  8. deobstructive
  9. deobstructives
  10. deobstructs
  11. deobstruent

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