verb

1. To check, restrain or control.

   “"Curb your dog."”

2. To rein in.

3. To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.

Synonyms: bow, flex, incurvate, behedge, curtail, limit, bend, fawn

noun

1. A row of curbstones; the material used to construct such a curb

2. The damage caused to a wheel or tire by curbing (running the wheel or tire into or over a curb).