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curb English

Meaning curb meaning

What does curb mean?
Definitions in simple English

curb Noun

— A curb is a stone or concrete edging between a sidewalk and a road. I stubbed my toe on the curb when crossing the street. I parked my car at the curb.

curb Verb

— To curb means to check or restrain or control. His parents tried to curb his late hours. Her husband curbed her reckless spending. — To rein in. — To furnish with a curb. — To force to "bite the curb" (hit the pavement curb); see curb stomp. — To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.

curb

— noun an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter) — verb (= suppress, stamp down, conquer) to put down by force or authority suppress a nascent uprising stamp down on littering conquer one's desires — verb (= control, hold in, hold, moderate) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits moderate your alcohol intake hold your tongue hold your temper control your anger — verb keep to the curb curb your dogs — noun a horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse — noun (= bridle) the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess his common sense is a bridle to his quick temper — verb (= curtail) place restrictions on curtail drinking in school

Curb

— noun (= American Stock Exchange) a stock exchange in New York

Synonyms curb synonyms

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curb English » English

restrain control check kerb suppress bridle repress subdue stop inhibit hold back hinder curbstone restraint rein moderate edge detain contain stifle stem squelch rim restrict prevent obstruct impede hold in hold govern curb bit withhold stamp down retain rein in quell oppress keep down cut back curtail curbing conquer catch brake block bit well curb trowel thwart temper

Curb English » English

American Stock Exchange AMEX

Topics curb topics

What do people use curb to talk about?
Work and occupation Working with buildings Infrastructure

Road
States Parts of things

Edge

Conjugation curb conjugation

How do you conjugate curb?

curb · verb

Examples curb examples

How do I use curb in a sentence?

Simple sentences

What natural foods help curb the appetite?
Please give me some kind of medicine to curb the pain.
God blesses those who curb their tongue.

Movie subtitles

And if it were any other situation, I would take off my earrings, my extensions, and my wings, and curb-stomp you.
Driver, just pull up to the curb.
You'll get along swell if you'll only curb your homicidal instincts.
Come on, pull up to the curb!
Even though I might want to kick Morris' ass to the curb right now, I'm not gonna do it.
I advise you to curb that wagging tongue of yours!
Here, curb your appetite with that.
He was just grazed by the mudguard. but it knocked him against the curb, and he's got slight concussion.
Don't sit on the curb.
Cole Armin, from today's testimony of your wild threats, I'm compelled to curb your evident appetite for trouble.
Three months ago the Spanish viceroy sent a diplomat who warned me to curb my political ambitions.
Police found him, 6:30 a.m. His car jumped a curb, went into a sign but not hard enough to do that.
All that would happen is, you're walking along Third Avenue a truck jumps the curb. An accident, nobody's fault in the world.
In order to come into closer union with our Lord. you will be submitted to exercises and tests. which are designed to root out your faults. curb your passions. and prepare you for acquiring the virtues and grace.
Of course, I shall endeavor to convince the nawabs and maliks of Suristan that the action of the British government is not to be construed as unfriendly calm their natural resentment and curb any active reprisals they might so easily contemplate.
You'll do swell if you curb your homicidal instincts and keep your trap shut.
I've come around that curb much faster lots of times.
It says so on the curb.
I was going down the street, minding my own business, too. when who do you think just happened by, purely by accident, of course. and pulled up alongside of the curb?
Pull over to the curb.
Standing on the curb with a big goldfish bowl in his arm, full of water.
Brewton makes no move to curb brock in anything.
And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humor.
Pull up to the curb and park.
Bill, come on, pull up to the curb.
I've a right to sell flow'rs if I keep off the curb.
O God, forgive, reconcile and curb our passions!
Sutton, if you would only curb this insolent streak, you might have a great future as a servant of the state.
But for a few seasons more he would have to curb his ambition and content himself as whipper-in.
Burke, your car's at the curb.
We must learn to curb our appetite.
Willyou be stead fast enough to curb your tongue? Then you shall see her.
Parked in a non-parking zone halfway up the curb.
Pull over to the curb over there.

News and current affairs

Interest rates high enough to curb stock market speculation would also have curbed construction and other forms of investment, raised unemployment, and sent the economy into recession.
The likelihood that the Fed would have to take drastic steps to curb galloping inflation, together with the effects of the 1979 oil crisis, made a serious recession quite likely.
For example, the Bank completely fumbled the exploding pandemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria during the 1990's, failing to get help to where it was needed to curb these outbreaks and save millions of lives.
True, cancer deaths have dropped chiefly because of long-delayed - and still poorly supported - efforts to curb smoking.
For example, China needs a stronger exchange rate to help curb manic investment in its export sector, and thereby reduce the odds of a 1990's style collapse.
Addressing drug use through criminalization and rehabilitation centers does nothing to curb demand, however, and usage rates have failed to decline.
Since laws are not the answer to child labor, many experts propose compulsory education as a means to curb it.
In the DRC, peacekeeping forces have not been able to curb all violence, but they have helped to save lives.
In the past, the law has been used to curb parties of both the extreme left and the extreme right.
If the six governments want to avoid the escalation spiral and curb the proliferation dynamic, they need to change strategy and objective.
Quicker, more accurate diagnoses will curb the current overreliance on antibiotics - a key requirement for combating resistance.
As 2015 begins, we must consider policies and interventions to curb such extreme inequality.
Either way, we need religion to curb nature's vices.
This has become an issue in a number of countries, and it has led some governments (as President Putin's did recently) to try and curb freedom of expression.
Similarly, the mandate of the Financial Action Task Force, created in 1989 to curb money laundering, has grown and become focused mainly on curbing terrorist financing.
It is doubtful that the ECB would raise interest rates to curb excess liquidity so long as economic recovery remains in question.
The plant's operators temporarily halted electricity generation to curb the risk of a radiation release, but nothing came of the threat.
The US certainly has a right to curb terrorists like those who staged the attack on September 11, 2001.
Indeed, it is a key issue in Nigeria's approaching presidential election, given President Obasanjo's high-minded but failed struggle to curb it.
Evict the state from direct economic activity, curb its discretionary powers, and both economic efficiency and governance will improve.
A recent case in point is the imbroglio in Andhra Pradesh in India, where the administration has moved to curb microfinance.
It will require leadership skills of a high order to persuade voters that in order to prevent national decline we must curb our appetite for more and more public spending.
Property or capital-gains taxes could help curb demand for housing as an investment vehicle.

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