curbverb [ T ]
uk/kɜːb/us/kɝːb/C2 to control or limit something that is not wanted:
The government should act to curb tax evasion.
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- He is someone who finds it difficult to curb his fleshly desires.
- You really need to curb your spending.
- The police are trying to curb under-age drinking.
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Limiting and restricting
- box sb in
- chain
- circumscribe
- clamp down on sth
- clampdown
- curtail
- damage limitation
- debilitate
- delimit
- delimitation
- hamstring
- hedge
- infringe
- muzzle
- non-proliferation
- qualification
- ration
- rationing
- restrain
- stabilizer
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curbnoun [ C ]
uk/kɜːb/us/kɝːb/curb noun [ C ] (CONTROL)
a limit on something that is not wanted:
You must try to put a curb on your bad temper/spending habits.
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Range and limits
- all the way to idiom
- ambit
- band
- bound
- boundary
- breadth
- condition
- limited
- meta-
- narrow
- narrowly
- parameter
- range
- spread
- stricture
- string
- strings attached idiom
- term
- the gamut
- threshold
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curb noun [ C ] (EDGE)
US spelling of kerb
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Road surfaces & features
- asphalt
- bitumen
- black spot
- blind spot
- camber
- gritter
- hairpin bend
- kerb
- kerbside
- lay-by
- manhole
- pothole
- rest area
- rest stop
- resurface
- roadside
- rumble strip
- S-bend
- traffic calming
- tramlines
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