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UNCHECKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not restrained or controlled
Example:
ungoverned rage
Synonyms:
unbridled; unchecked; uncurbed; ungoverned
Classified under:
Similar:
unrestrained (not subject to restraint)
Context examples:
Now, it is very clear to me that in so long a period one would have expected that the carnivorous creatures, multiplying unchecked, would have exhausted their food supply and have been compelled to either modify their flesh-eating habits or die of hunger.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Left unchecked, TR4 may well cause the Cavendish to go extinct, threatening the livelihoods of 400 million people around the world who rely on this banana variety as food or as a source of income.
(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)
Now Emma could, indeed, enjoy Mr. Knightley's visits; now she could talk, and she could listen with true happiness, unchecked by that sense of injustice, of guilt, of something most painful, which had haunted her when remembering how disappointed a heart was near her, how much might at that moment, and at a little distance, be enduring by the feelings which she had led astray herself.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I endeavoured to crush these fears and to fortify myself for the trial which in a few months I resolved to undergo; and sometimes I allowed my thoughts, unchecked by reason, to ramble in the fields of Paradise, and dared to fancy amiable and lovely creatures sympathising with my feelings and cheering my gloom; their angelic countenances breathed smiles of consolation.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
