curbed
遏制的,遏制,遏止的,遏止
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- : Also British, kerb . a rim, especially of joined stones or concrete, along a street or roadway, forming an edge for a sidewalk.
- : anything that restrains or controls; a restraint; check.
- : an enclosing framework or border.
- : Also called curb bit . a bit used with a bridoon for control of a horse, to which a chain is hooked.
- : Also called curb market; British, kerb market, kerbstone market. a market, originally on the sidewalk or street, for the sale of securities not listed on a stock exchange.Compare American Stock Exchange.
- : the framework around the top of a well.
- : the arris between an upper and a lower slope on a gambrel or mansard roof.
- : a belt of metal, masonry, etc., for abutting a dome at its base.
- : the track on which the cap turns.
- : Veterinary Pathology. a swelling on the lower part of the back of the hock of a horse, often causing lameness.
- : Engineering. the cutting edge at the bottom of a caisson.
- : Carpentry. purlin plate.
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There are even prohibitions against ice-cream trucks playing their jingle once they’re parked at the curb.
According to charging documents obtained by ESPN, La Russa is alleged to have run his car into a curb alongside a Phoenix-area road shortly before midnight.
Police said Kunene kept driving, jumped a curb and sideswiped two other police vehicles before hitting another police vehicle head on.
Since then, a revival of operations in Europe has been stymied as countries implement a new wave of Covid-19 curbs, while the North Atlantic market the airline also serves remains largely closed.
On this particular day, Gluesenkamp learned, a California highway patrol car had parked at the curb near the manzanita.
Surely the unruly use of antibiotics in animal feed can and must be curbed.
At the end, those very forces whose influence he thought would be curbed had claimed his life.
The ISI wants U.S. intelligence operations in the country curbed and under its full control as the price for letting Davis go.
He rained smashing blows upon him with a furious frenzy that would not be curbed.
It was with difficulty that he had curbed his impatience until the obscurity of night should render his moving free from danger.
Stover was tempted to let his imagination run, but the thought of the afternoon curbed it.
Curses trembled upon his lips, but he curbed them, inwardly determining to have his revenge when the opportunity should arise.