Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

uncurb en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + curb.

Meanings

  1. to remove restrictions from, to render free from restraints
    • The "Cape Malay", a people of whom I had never heard before our arrival, grasped eagerly at the demoralizing doctrine of a plurality of wives, and crowded around the sacred men who could uncurb the bit of sensuality and render null and void the restraining laws of bigamy. 2009, My Last Cruise, Alexander Habersham, →ISBN, page 35:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
uncurbs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
uncurbed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
uncurbed Tense=Past lexicographic
uncurbing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

curb · uncurbed