unbridled

Adjective

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Adjective (1)

  1. not restrained or controlled“unbridled rage”“an unchecked temper”“ungoverned rage”Synonyms: uncheckeduncurbedungoverned
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Un·bri′dled adjective

Origin: Pref. un- not + bridled.

Loosed from the bridle, or as from the bridle; hence, unrestrained; licentious; violent; as, unbridled passions. “Unbridled boldness.” Ben Jonson

Lands deluged by unbridled floods.— William Wordsworth

— Un·bri′wb-a1′>′dled·ness, noun Abp. Robert Leighton

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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