Dictionary Entry
curb
curb is a 4-letter English word with 17 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To bend or curve. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To bend or curve
- 2transitive verb
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.
- 3transitive verb
To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
- 4intransitive verb
To bend; to crouch; to cringe.
- 5noun
That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse.
- 6noun
An assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal member, forming a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the integrity of that opening; also, a ring of stone serving a similar purpose, as at the eye of a dome.
- 7noun
A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.
- 8noun
A curbstone.
- 9noun
A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
- 10noun
the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess
"his common sense is a bridle to his quick temper"
- 11noun
a stock exchange in New York
Synonyms
- 12noun
an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter)
- 13noun
a horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse
- 14verb
place restrictions on
"curtail drinking in school"
- 15verb
to put down by force or authority
"suppress a nascent uprising"
"stamp down on littering"
- 16verb
keep to the curb
"curb your dogs"
- 17verb
lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
"moderate your alcohol intake"
"hold your tongue"
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