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curbed

adjective as in pent-up

adjective as in smothered

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There are even prohibitions against ice-cream trucks playing their jingle once they’re parked at the curb.

According to charging documents obtained by ESPN, La Russa is alleged to have run his car into a curb alongside a Phoenix-area road shortly before midnight.

Police said Kunene kept driving, jumped a curb and sideswiped two other police vehicles before hitting another police vehicle head on.

Since then, a revival of operations in Europe has been stymied as countries implement a new wave of Covid-19 curbs, while the North Atlantic market the airline also serves remains largely closed.

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On this particular day, Gluesenkamp learned, a California highway patrol car had parked at the curb near the manzanita.

Surely the unruly use of antibiotics in animal feed can and must be curbed.

At the end, those very forces whose influence he thought would be curbed had claimed his life.

The ISI wants U.S. intelligence operations in the country curbed and under its full control as the price for letting Davis go.

He rained smashing blows upon him with a furious frenzy that would not be curbed.

It was with difficulty that he had curbed his impatience until the obscurity of night should render his moving free from danger.

Stover was tempted to let his imagination run, but the thought of the afternoon curbed it.

Curses trembled upon his lips, but he curbed them, inwardly determining to have his revenge when the opportunity should arise.

He curbed his desperate impatience, set his teeth, and whirled the noose about his head in a widening circle.

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On this page you'll find 242 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to curbed, such as: barred, blocked, closed, confined, controlled, and defined.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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