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Verb: unblock  ,ún'blók
  1. Clear or remove an obstruction from
    "the procedure unblocked his arteries"
     
  2. Make (assets) available
    "unblock the holdings in the dictator's bank account";
    - unfreeze, free, release
     
  3. (card game) 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
    "He unblocked the diamonds to set up his partner's long suit"

Derived forms: unblocking, unblocked, unblocks

Type of: issue, loosen up, play, supply, unstuff [informal]