uncurb
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]uncurb (third-person singular simple present uncurbs, present participle uncurbing, simple past and past participle uncurbed)
- to remove restrictions from, to render free from restraints
- 2009, My Last Cruise, Alexander Habersham, →ISBN, page 35:
- The "Cape Malay", a people of whom I had never heard before our arrival, grasped eagerly at the demoralizing doctrine of a plurality of wives, and crowded around the sacred men who could uncurb the bit of sensuality and render null and void the restraining laws of bigamy.