Past tense of curb
regular verb
The past tense of curb is curbed. The past participle is also curbed.
Forms of curb
| Base form (V1) | curb /kɝb/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | curbed |
| Past participle (V3) | curbed |
| Present participle | curbing |
| Third person singular | curbs |
Curbed in a sentence
- As had become her habit, Jane rove past her destination and curbed the car on a side street a block and a half away.2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 34
- Therefore, the tendency of man to breed uninhabitedly must be curbed.1986, K. L. Bhowmik, Current Anthropological and Archaeological Perspectives: Man. From the entry uninhabitedly
- By planning your diet, those dreaded ‘snackcidents’ are also curbed.2017 September, Caroline Gray, editor, Easy Food, number 124, Zahra Publishing Ltd, →ISSN. From the entry snackcident
- Brianna curbed her pang of envy as she forked her plain, low-fat, crouton-free salad niçoise into her mouth and shook her head.2018, Maya Blake, chapter 2, in What the Greek's Money Can't Buy (Greek Bachelors), HarperCollins UK, →ISBN. From the entry fork
Meaning of curb
- noun A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand).
- noun A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
- noun Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
Questions about the past tense of curb
- What is the past tense of curb?
- The past tense of curb is curbed.
- What is the past participle of curb?
- The past participle of curb is curbed.
- Is curb a regular or irregular verb?
- Curb is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: curb (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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