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  • past tense form of curb.
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curbed

[kurbd] / kɜrbd /






ADJECTIVE
smothered
Synonyms


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What man in Europe was better able to teach them a lesson than Charles, the destroyer of Liege, the stern curber of undue liberty in Flanders?

From Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 by Putnam, Ruth

He guided their imagination, warranted their hopes, and controlled their will—or else they required him as a safeguard against the demon and a curber of other people's crimes.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William




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