Word Meanings - CURB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To bend or curve Crooked and curbed lines. Holland. 2. To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check. Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed.

Additional info about word: CURB

1. To bend or curve Crooked and curbed lines. Holland. 2. To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check. Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed. Milton. Where pinching want must curbthy warm desires. Prior. 3. To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CURB)

• Break
• Fracture
• rupture
• shatter
• shiver
• destroy
• tame
• curb
• demolish
• tear asunder
• rend
• burst
• sever
• smash
• split
• subdue
• violate
• infringe
• Bridle
• Curb
• restrain
• govern
• control
• master
• moderate
• compress
• Check Curb
• stop
• stay
• repress
• hinder
• impede
• inhibit
• cohibit
• bridle
• obstruct
• Control
• guide
• regulate
• coerce
• manage
• administer
• Rein
• check
• hold

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CURB)

• Cohere
• hold
• stand
• Loose
• liberate
• instigate
• accelerate
• license
• indulge
• allow
• abet
• Neglect
• abandon
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

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  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• BURSTEN
  p. p. of Burst, v. i.
• BURST
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  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• SHIVER-SPAR
  A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
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  The Fissipedia.
• CHECKREIN
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• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
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  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
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  Capable of being repressed.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• PERSEVERANCE
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• MAKE AND BREAK
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• CALLOW
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  To shiver or break in pieces.
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