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Definition: Curbed |
CurbedAdjective1. Held back from some action especially by force. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "curbed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Synonym: CurbedSynonym: checked (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Curbed |
| English words defined with "curbed": controlled ♦ restricted ♦ Uncurbable. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "curbed": Garret ♦ SHAPING-MACHINE OPERATOR, stone polisher. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "curbed": Curb. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Malaria was conquered completely in areas inhabited by more than 600 million people, and sharply curbed in the homelands of 300 million others. (references) | |
Economic History | Eritrea | Beginning in early February 1999, banks curbed the issuance of letters of credit to finance imports, due to a shortage of foreign currency. (references) |
Czech Rep | The Commission has made important strides in establishing a regulatory framework for Czech capital markets and enforcing the new rules, but its curbed authority and internal personnel difficulties have limited its effectiveness. (references) | |
Bangladesh | The country's single credit rating agency, Credit Rating Information and Services, provides credit rating information to international standards, although it is currently involved in a regulatory dispute with the SEC which has curbed its activities. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Curbed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "Curbed" is used about 70 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 57.14% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 35.71% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.71% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.43% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 70 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "curbed": curbed modulation. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "curbed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Arabic | مكبوت (penned, pent up, repressed, restrained, subdued, suppressed), مقيد (bound, bridled, captive, checked, confined, limited, listed, recorded, registered, restrained, restricted, restrictive, tied). (various references) | ||||
Chinese | 遏制 (Containment, Curb, Curbing). (various references) | ||||
French | réprimé. (various references) | ||||
German | zügelte (bridled, reined). (various references) | ||||
Hebrew | מרוסן (bridled, checked, low key, reined, restrained, temperate). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 재갈을 물리". (various references) | ||||
Manx | streeanit (bridled, controlled, repressed, restrained, retarded), smaghtit (castigated, chastened, controlled, corrected, cowed, disciplined, governed, reproved, restrained, subdued, subjected), oirrit (limited, rimmed), fo smaght (cowed, down-trodden, under suspension), cribbit (contracted, shrunken). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | urbedcay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "curbed": uncurbed. (additional references) | |
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"Curbed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: corber, courbe, curbe, Curber, curred. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "curbed" (pronounced ker"bd) |
| 3 | -er" b d | disturbed, perturbed, reverbed, undisturbed, unperturbed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-r-u" | |
-1 letter: crude, cubed, cuber, cured, redub. | |
-2 letters: bedu, bred, burd, crud, cube, cued, curb, curd, cure, drub, duce, dure, ecru, rube, rude, rued. | |
-3 letters: bed, bud, bur, cub, cud, cue, cur, deb, dub, due, ecu, reb, rec, red, rub, rue, urb, urd. | |
-4 letters: be, de, ed, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-d-e-r-u" | |
+1 letter: crumbed, cudbear. | |
+2 letters: barleduc, becursed, brunched, crumbled, cudbears, cumbered, curbside, obscured, reedbuck, scrubbed, unbraced, uncurbed. | |
+3 letters: barbecued, barleducs, becrusted, bescoured, bucklered, buckramed, butchered, curbsides, debaucher, reducible, reducibly, reedbucks, rudbeckia. | |
+4 letters: abductores, ambuscader, bifurcated, breadcrumb, carbuncled, carbureted, carburised, carburized, cloudberry, counterbid, cumberbund, cummerbund, debauchers, debauchery, encumbered, incumbered, lubricated, obduracies, obstructed, parbuckled, producible, rubricated, rudbeckias, subcordate, subscribed, subtracted, unbranched, unbreeched. | |
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