uncurb

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ curb.

Verb

uncurb (third-person singular simple present uncurbs, present participle uncurbing, simple past and past participle uncurbed)

1. 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.

Related terms

• curb
• uncurbed