Verb (used with object) : Curb your dog. From Dictionary.com.
I 'd like to slash around uncurbed outside the pale a little. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
And here it was, still uncurbed, speeding her forward into fields of romance. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
And at this point, it seemed a fate less terrible than whatever an uncurbed Brian Duff might mete out. From Wordnik.com. [The Distant Echo]
Some uncurbed outbreaking of alarm would be almost certain, such was the excitability of her temperament. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
The Depression was caused mainly by financial overspeculation left uncurbed by the Federal Reserve Board. From Wordnik.com. [Presiding Over Chaos] Reference
The mysterious disease, however, still seemed to be uncurbed, despite all the efforts of the medical staff. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
Because he had not become a boazer, he was leaving Repton uncorrupted and with his rebellious nature uncurbed. From Wordnik.com. [Storyteller] Reference
One of the main factors which also aggravates that crisis is the uncurbed arms race that touches the whole world. From Wordnik.com. [SECOND CONGRESS OF THE ATWE] Reference
Too many tendencies wrought in him uncurbed for his ideas to clothe themselves constantly in a suitable and harmonious dress. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
Unreined, uncurbed, to plunge thee down the steep?. From Wordnik.com. [Life Is a Dream] Reference
Anger uncurbed welled from her in an inarticulate cry. From Wordnik.com. [Crooked Trails and Straight] Reference
She was following the first uncurbed impulse of her life. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Wise Man] Reference
That brutal spirit of monopoly is still abroad and uncurbed. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)] Reference
Whom should she find there in her uncurbed imagination but Roger. From Wordnik.com. [Without a Home] Reference
There the mob had begun, and there still dwelt its evil spirit uncurbed. From Wordnik.com. [An Original Belle] Reference
Time-servers wondered that his uncurbed speech never brought him to grief. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45] Reference
It is no wonder that Cicero condemns so licentious and uncurbed a liberty. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)] Reference
His moustache is a flourishing, uncurbed, riotous growth above his billowy chin. From Wordnik.com. [Somewhere in Red Gap] Reference
His temper was so fierce and so uncurbed that no native dared even to tread on his shadow. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
So give air uncurbed licence to your penchant for horns and whenever you want to blow, blow. From Wordnik.com. [A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.] Reference
• Leaves should be raked into the street along the curb or to the street shoulders in uncurbed areas. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Dreams are a temporary insanity -- reason sleeps and the mind roams the universe, uncurbed and wildly free. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8] Reference
She supposed that now girls were all like this -- all such free, wild, uncurbed creatures, a law to themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Helena] Reference
If a single spring could work such destruction what would be the result of the uncurbed power of ocean and seas?. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood] Reference
What must such become under the influence of enervating luxury, flattery, and uncurbed selfishness from childhood?. From Wordnik.com. [What Can She Do?] Reference
The splendid uncurbed procession passes and disappears like a silent whirlwind over a field of lilies and jessamine. From Wordnik.com. [Holland, v. 1 (of 2)] Reference
That uncurbed dominion of the senses, to which his very boyhood had abandoned itself, found a willing slave in the man. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia — Complete] Reference
"I thought it was a year," he laughed, and the sound of his uncurbed voice rang strangely in this room given to murmurs. From Wordnik.com. [Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain)] Reference
Besides, it seemed the only safe thing to do with her eyes, for no one could tell what the uncurbed creature would say next. From Wordnik.com. [The Enchanted April] Reference
What a wild, uncurbed imagination had mastered his morbid nature, as he lived a hermit's life among the practical people of Pushton!. From Wordnik.com. [What Can She Do?] Reference
I assure you that the North regarded the invader in that case as a foe in your homes -- uncurbed and unrestrained -- a terrible enemy. From Wordnik.com. [A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861] Reference
"It's virtually certain our emissions will grow and the burden on the taxpayer will be uncurbed," Jan Wright told Radio NZ on Wednesday. From Wordnik.com. [IOL: News] Reference
The uncurbed habit of running depletes almost like disease; and but few varieties will make large fruit buds and runners at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Success with Small Fruits] Reference
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