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"ref": "1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce",
"text": "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 man..",
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"ref": "2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian",
"text": "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 from the comfort of their office in San Francisco to someone from a council house in London, where this video is happening right outside their front door.\"",
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"code": "de",
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"source": "Thesaurus:curb",
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"ref": "2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 53",
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"word": "curb"
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"To rein in."
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"(transitive) To bring to a stop beside a curb."
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{
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:curb",
"word": "stay"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:curb",
"word": "stifle"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:curb",
"word": "stop"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:curb",
"word": "straiten"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:curb",
"word": "suppress"
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{
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"word": "withhold"
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"source": "Thesaurus:curb",
"tags": [
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "obuzdavam",
"sense": "to check, restrain, control",
"word": "обуздавам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to check, restrain, control",
"word": "pitää kurissa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to check, restrain, control",
"word": "hillitä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to check, restrain, control",
"word": "pitää aisoissa"
},
{
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"roman": "erúkō",
"sense": "to check, restrain, control",
"word": "ἐρύκω"
},
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to check, restrain, control",
"word": "reprimō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to check, restrain, control",
"word": "compescō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to check, restrain, control",
"word": "refrēnō"
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obuzdatʹ",
"sense": "to check, restrain, control",
"word": "обуздать"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sderžatʹ",
"sense": "to check, restrain, control",
"word": "сдержать"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to furnish with a curb",
"word": "reunustaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to force to \"bite the curb\"",
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},
{
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"sense": "to damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb",
"word": "ajaa reunakiveykseen"
},
{
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to bend or curve",
"word": "taivuttaa"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to crouch; cringe",
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