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Meaning of unfoul | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
ʌnˈfaʊl

Definitions

To free (something snagged or fouled).

transitive

Examples

“‘We've lost quite a few men,’ the old man says as he energetically unfouls his rifle and carefully loads it with black powder that he extracts from a horn.”
“How one repairs a broken sled, the quickest way to unfoul the dog lines, how to prevent the dogs from tangling the lines after stops, and so on.”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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