English Dictionary

curb

IPA（発音記号）

/kɝb/

動詞

他動詞 略語 別表記 省略 俗語 自動詞

(transitive) To check, restrain or control. / (transitive) To rein in. / (transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.

日本語の意味

（何かの動作や効果などを）抑制する、制御する / （行動や発展の進み具合を）制限する、抑え込む

The city installed barriers to curb the flow of traffic during the festival.

その都市は祭りの期間中、交通の流れを抑えるためにバリケードを設置した。

意味（1）

(transitive) To check, restrain or control.

Curb your dog

意味（2）

(transitive) To rein in.

意味（3）

(transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.

意味（4）

(transitive, slang) Ellipsis of curb stomp.

意味（5）

(transitive) To bring to a stop beside a curb.

As had become her habit, Jane rove past her destination and curbed the car on a side street a block and a half away.

意味（6）

(transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.

意味（7）

(transitive) To bend or curve.

[B]y crooked and curbed lines, wee looke within the water; for our eie ſight doth bend and turne againe perforce, by reason that the matter of the water is more thicke; which is the cauſe, that we ſee the mariners oare in the ſea a farre off, as it were crooked.

意味（8）

(intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.

Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, / Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.

curbs （ present singular third-person ）

curbing （ participle present ）

curbed （ participle past ）

curbed （ past ）