Crossword-Solution: CURBED 6 letters, 54 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Curbed imp. & p. p. of Curb

We have 54 clues for the answer “CURBED”

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Walked a dog responsibly 1 answer
Reined in, as one's enthusiasm 1 answer
Reined in 1 answer
Put under restraint 1 answer
Cut way back on 1 answer
Kept in check, as enthusiasm 1 answer
Held on a leash 1 answer
held back or restrained or prevented 3 answers
Bridled 3 answers
Kept in check 4 answers
Tamed 5 answers
Held back 21 answers
compassed 30 answers
Encased 31 answers
moderate capacity 31 answers
circumscribed 32 answers
in jail 32 answers
in bondage 32 answers
immured 32 answers
Detained 33 answers
Pent (up) 33 answers
interred 33 answers
hampered 34 answers
Locked in 34 answers
penned in 35 answers
enslaved 35 answers
laid-up 35 answers
fettered 36 answers
curbed 36 answers
BEHIND bars 36 answers
Hemmed in 36 answers
bounded 37 answers
Laid up 38 answers
hostage 38 answers
imprisoned 39 answers
caged 40 answers
Encircled 41 answers
Prisoner 42 answers
Captive 43 answers
shut in 44 answers
Held 44 answers
finite 46 answers
Checked 46 answers
Locked (up) 47 answers
incarcerated 47 answers
Restricted ___ 51 answers
Enclosed 52 answers
jailed 52 answers
Unwilling 53 answers
Indisposed 58 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CURBED (5)

Beneath the watchful eyes of Tarzan and Mugambi, however, Sheeta and the apes of Akut curbed their desires, so that the men worked about the deck amongst them in far greater security than they imagined.
The Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
They are fellows, moreover, who will spend the gains of a month on a night’s debauch, for fear that the morrow will rob them of life and the chance of spending; and, moreover, it is their one point of honour to be curbed in no desire by an ordinary fear of consequences.
The Lost Continent C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne 2008
But he curbed him and spurred him, until he stood Still in his place, like a horse of wood, With nostrils uplift, and eyes wide and wan; But the sweat in streams from his fetlocks ran.
Phantastes George MacDonald 1995
But having made up her mind to lose the two lodgers, the Frau Professor could not resist the satisfaction of giving rein to the ill-temper she had curbed so long.
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 1995
Formerly, the length of time required to effect the seizure curbed the usurer's avidity, gave the borrower an opportunity to recover himself, and gave rise to a transaction between him and his creditor which might result finally in a complete release.
What is Property? P. J. Proudhon 1995

Quotes with CURBED (3)

Condemning war has not curbed armed conflict. Religion and education did not eliminate war. Warfare did not terminate more wars. Armed combat simply breeds endless wars.
Kilroy J. Oldster Dead Toad Scrolls
Nature to all things fixed the limits fit And wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains. In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confined to single parts Li…
Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism
An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in the centre of the Library here and think despairingly how impossible it is ever to become possessed of all the wealth of facts and ideas contained in the books surrounding me on every hand.
W.N.P. Barbellion The Journal of a Disappointed Man
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Used 14 times in crossword archives (1971–2024).