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

1. transitive verb. To bend or curve
2. transitive 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.
3. transitive verb. To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
4. intransitive verb. To bend; to crouch; to cringe.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. 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.
7. noun. A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.
8. noun. A curbstone.
9. noun. 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.
10. noun. the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess

    "his common sense is a bridle to his quick temper"

    Synonyms: bridle, check

11. noun. a stock exchange in New York

    Synonyms: amex

12. noun. an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter)

    Synonyms: curbing, kerb

13. noun. a horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse
14. verb. place restrictions on

    "curtail drinking in school"

    Synonyms: curtail, restrict

15. verb. to put down by force or authority

    "suppress a nascent uprising"

    "stamp down on littering"

    Synonyms: conquer, inhibit, subdue, suppress

16. verb. keep to the curb

    "curb your dogs"

17. verb. lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits

    "moderate your alcohol intake"

    "hold your tongue"

    Synonyms: check, contain, control, hold, moderate

Synonyms

bridle, check, amex, curbing, kerb, curtail, restrict, conquer, inhibit, subdue, suppress, contain, control, hold, moderate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in curb:

crub

Common word forms

curbs, curbed, curber, curbing, curbable, curbless

Words from these letters

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