CNN: 25 ways to boost your home’s curb appeal, according to real estate and design experts 25 ways to boost your home’s curb appeal, according to real estate and design experts restrain, check, curb, bridle mean to hold back from or control in doing something. restrain suggests holding back by force or persuasion from acting or from going to extremes. CURB definition: 1.

Understanding the Context

to control or limit something that is not wanted: 2. a limit on something that is not wanted…. Learn more. When you're using the word curb as a noun, it's the raised edging beside a street.

Key Insights

When curb is a verb, it means to restrain or hold back, like when you curb your impulse to laugh while watching a badly acted play. A curb (American English) or kerb (British English) is the edge where a raised sidewalk / pavement or road median/central reservation meets a street/other roadway. Definition of curb verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.