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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unstop

Unstop \Un*stop"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + stop.]

  1. To take the stopple or stopper from; as, to unstop a bottle or a cask.

  2. To free from any obstruction; to open.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unstop

"remove the stopper from," late 14c., from un- (2) "reverse, opposite of" + stop (v.). Related: Unstopped; unstopping.

Wiktionary
unstop

vb. 1 To remove a stoppage; to clear a blockage. 2 To unplug or uncork a container.

Usage examples of "unstop".

The pictures stirred her old guessing-sense, making her feel as if all that kept her from reading their secrets was knowing how to unstop her ears.

Senta unstopped her tiny jar of opia and put a pinch of the powder into the cup, then reached out from the mouth of the cave and allowed the dripping rain to fill the small cup.

As he unstopped the touch-hole and tried with the priming-wire whether the cartridge was home, he was stunned by a fresh thought.

Yes, the trick had worked and, unstopped by security officers and the guard at the tollbooth, they now sailed out of the tunnel into the streets of Manhattan.

The moon-man looked at him with suffering eyes, then unstopped the flask and poured a little water out on his hand, to be sure it was water, he thought, before he wiped his face with it.

If he snaps his hands, her wrists will both break and her life fly out of her heart through her unstopped veins.

From a pocket inside her cloak she produced a small stone vial, unstopped it, and began gently rubbing a white salve on the burn as they rode.

He unstopped the bottle and drank from it, Downer wine, cheap tranquilizer.

What it meant to me was that I had an area 17 x 40 miles which might be riddled with unstopped Bug holes.

Frederic got behind a door and began performing the experiment of stopping and unstopping his ears in rapid alternation, greatly rejoicing in the singular effect of mixed conversation chopped very small, like the contents of a mince-pie, or meat-pie, as it is more forcibly called in the deep-rutted villages lying along the unsalted streams.

Frederic got behind a door and began performing the experiment of stopping and unstopping his ears in rapid alternation, greatly rejoicing in the singular effect of mixed conversation chopped very small, like the contents of a mince-pie, or meat-pie, as it is more forcibly called in the deep-rutted villages lying along the unsalted streams.

And the meds would know what you knew in one more day—and the instant they knew, that unstopped leak would send the news straight to our enemies.

And the meds would know what you knew in one more day-and the instant they knew, that unstopped leak would send the news straight to our enemies.