Synonyms for curb
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1. curb

   Govern carries the idea of authoritative administration or some exercise of authority that is at once effective and continuous; control is effective, but may be momentary or occasional. One controls what he holds or can hold at will absolutely in check; as, a skilful horseman controls a spirited horse; a person controls his temper; we say to one who is excited, "control yourself." A person commands another when he has, or claims, the right to make that other do his will, with power of inflicting penalty if not obeyed; he controls another whom he can effectually prevent from doing anything contrary to his will; he governs one whom he actually does cause, regularly or constantly, to obey his will; a parent may command a child whom he can not govern or control. The best teachers are not greatly prone to command, but govern or control their pupils largely by other means. Command is, however, often used in the sense of securing, as well as requiring, submission or obedience, as when we speak of a commanding influence; a man commands the situation when he can shape events as he pleases; a fortress commands the region when no enemy can pass against its resistance. Govern implies the exercise of knowledge and judgment as well as power. To rule is more absolute and autocratic than to govern; to sway is to move by quiet but effectual influence; to mold is not only to influence feeling and action, but to shape character; to manage is to secure by skilful contrivance the doing of one's will by those whom one can not directly control; a wise mother, by gentle means, sways the feelings and molds the lives of her children; to be able to manage servants is an important element of good housekeeping. The word reign, once so absolute, now simply denotes that one holds the official station of sovereign in a monarchy, with or without effective power; the Queen of England reigns; the Czar of Russia both reigns and rules.

   Synonyms:
   command, control, direct, govern, influence, manage, mold, reign, reign over, restrain, rule, sway

   Antonyms:
   be in subjection, be subject, comply, obey, submit, yield

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1. curbverb

   Synonyms:
   restrain, cohibit, hold, repress, check, moderate

   Antonyms:
   indulge, liberate, release, emancipate, loose, urge, free, incite, instigate, impel

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1. curb, curbing, kerbnoun

   an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter)

   Synonyms:
   curbing, curb bit, check, kerb, bridle

2. curb, curb bitnoun

   a horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse

   Synonyms:
   curbing, curb bit, check, kerb, bridle

3. American Stock Exchange, AMEX, Curbnoun

   a stock exchange in New York

   Synonyms:
   curbing, curb bit, check, kerb, bridle

4. bridle, check, curbverb

   the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess

   "his common sense is a bridle to his quick temper"

   Synonyms:
   impediment, baulk, cheque, stay, confirmation, bridle, tick, hitch, curb bit, chip, handicap, assay, stoppage, balk, check, check-out procedure, kerb, bank check, tab, chit, curbing, halt, deterrent, check mark, hinderance, hindrance, substantiation, stop, arrest, verification, checkout

5. control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderateverb

   lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits

   "moderate your alcohol intake"; "hold your tongue"; "hold your temper"; "control your anger"

   Synonyms:
   crack, ensure, mark, hold in, jibe, verify, gibe, mince, make, declare, lead, tick off, view as, carry, book, operate, concur, have, maintain, master, hold, moderate, sustain, learn, checker, check out, match, stamp down, conquer, retain, stop, nurse, defy, condition, assure, tame, cut back, guard, prevail, manipulate, comprise, break, suss out, check off, withstand, adjudge, suppress, accommodate, check up on, control, look into, ascertain, harbour, insure, soften, go over, reserve, check, hold back, give, take hold, train, go for, see, conceal, take, deem, incorporate, support, find out, obtain, discipline, apply, chasten, check over, restrict, bind, tone down, have got, entertain, subdue, temper, correspond, command, restrain, keep, concord, keep back, oblige, fit, throw, keep in line, arrest, check into, tally, enclose, contain, bear, inhibit, determine, hold up, retard, take for, turn back, harbor, chequer, delay, watch, defend, see to it, confine, chair, admit, curtail, tick, halt, obligate, agree, mark off

6. suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curbverb

   to put down by force or authority

   "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires"

   Synonyms:
   chasten, capture, get over, master, crush, conquer, moderate, quash, keep down, surmount, restrict, suppress, bottle up, crucify, subjugate, reduce, control, stamp down, hold, seize, subordinate, tame, mortify, hold in, curtail, appropriate, contain, oppress, inhibit, cut back, overcome, subdue, repress, check

7. curbverb

   keep to the curb

   "curb your dogs"

   Synonyms:
   restrict, curtail, subdue, conquer, moderate, inhibit, check, hold in, cut back, contain, stamp down, control, suppress, hold

8. restrict, curtail, curb, cut backverb

   place restrictions on

   "curtail drinking in school"

   Synonyms:
   suppress, bring down, qualify, conquer, moderate, throttle, trim down, flash back, prune, inhibit, cut, trammel, trim back, lop, trim, cut down, reduce, control, subdue, stamp down, hold, cut short, confine, restrain, restrict, clip, hold in, curtail, contain, bound, limit, cut back, snip, crop, dress, check

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1. • Bit
   • Restrain
   • Stock Exchange

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. curbnoun

   Synonyms:
   CHECK, restraint, hinderance, bridle

2. curbnoun

   Synonyms:
   curb-stone

3. curbverb

   Synonyms:
   check, restrain, control, bridle, put under restraint, keep under

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1. curbverb

   Synonyms:
   check, restrain, control, repress, bridle

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1. List of paraphrases for "curb":

   sidewalk, halt, stem, suppress, contain, stop, reduce, limit, restrict, curtail, rein, restrain, combat, curbing, brake, pavement, counter, dampen, deter

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1. Natalia Broniarczyk:

   In all countries that curb access to contraception and legal and safe abortion, the black market grows.

2. Dirk Engels:

   Dengue is one of the diseases we haven't been so successful in tackling or curbing, we don't have easy tools to curb the spread of Dengue.

3. Phil Rosenthal:

   You know how ‘Curb’ is an extension of Larry David’s personality? The personality that we got to know, knowing we were getting to know Larry David as the writer of ‘Seinfeld?’ This is my version of that, you are seeing me now. I am the same voice as what was in ‘Raymond’. But now — either fortunately or unfortunately — you are seeing my face!

4. Brian Kemp:

   President Biden took office in January of 2021, and to understand why we are in this current state of record-high inflation and costs to the average American family, people can simply track his first year of misguided policy decisions, because of our strong, fiscally conservative approach to budgeting, Lt. Governor Duncan, Speaker Ralston and I can confidently propose a state motor fuel tax suspension to curb sky-high gas prices while also returning money back to hardworking Georgians through a tax refund and an income tax cut.

5. Shannon Johnstone:

   Throwing bodies into landfill after being injected with a barbiturate isn't good for the environment, my hope is that underlying that, we can figure out what to do to curb overpopulation from starting in first place.