Definition of "unclog" []

• To clear a blockage from (a drain, for example). (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The great lie is that this bail out will 'unclog' the credit pipes -- as if other people are sitting around with trillions of dollars ready to buy out junk bonds at above-market prices."
• "Paulson argues that relieving banks of dubious mortgage-backed securities will "unclog" the financial system and encourage essential business and consumer lending."
• "This presumably would "unclog" capital markets, the financial economy would begin functioning normally again, and then the government would recoup what it could."