OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 17238

curb

/kɝb/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
freno • restricción
Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
She maintains that the internet should face similar curbs to TV because young people are increasingly living online. "It's totally different, someone at Google watching the video f…
The same also is that burning mention’d by S. Paul, whereof mariage ought to be the remedy; the Flesh hath other naturall and easie curbs which are in the power of any temperate ma…
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