bridle
verb
us
/ˈbraɪ.dəl/ uk
/ˈbraɪ.dəl/Meaning of bridle in English
(Definition of bridle from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
bridle | Intermediate English
bridle noun [C] (LEATHER STRAPS)
bridle verb [I] (SHOW ANGER)
Examples of bridle
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It is designed to "bridle" the executive if he engages in excesses.
From NPR
Sure, he might bristle at the bridle from time to time (trade always does), but those $10,000 bonus checks aren't so bad, right?
From Slate Magazine
Poison was also rubbed on his bridle and used to coat the inside of his hunting horn.
From Huffington Post
He compares it to the bridle of a horse.
From NPR
But they create an illusion of safety, in that they bridle the infinite anxiety.
From The Atlantic
The horses bolted after one rubbed its head against the other, removing that horse's bridle, police said.
From Huffington Post
It amazes me that those of us who bridle at advice from people we know -- parents, spouses, neighbors -- crave it from those strangers we call authors.
From NPR
Paleontologists bridled at the hypothesis.
From National Geographic
One might imagine that jurors would bridle at the suggestion that they could be obliged to convict someone whom they regard as innocentm.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Next standeth their street, that first rudely make the said stirrops, bridles, and spurres.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
To this principle we conjoin the fact that the interventions that make healthcare providers bridle at providing care to the noncompliant patient typically are unpleasant and dangerous.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Aside from the emphasis on observing tact in social interaction, the imprisonment of the tongue here is yet another instance of the need to apply the bridle of sharica.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Each trooper lay in front of his own horse, pulling the bridle rein over his horse's head and slipping his arm through it.
From Project Gutenberg
The equipment should consist of a good easy saddle, bridle, pack-saddles, pack sacks, saddle blankets, hobbles, picket ropes, etc.
From Project Gutenberg
She stood beside the cow-shed but a few feet away, and held her horse by the bridle.
From Project Gutenberg
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馬勒（ばろく：おもがい、くつわ、手綱など）…
ata takılan gem, yular…
bride…
brida…
breidel…
bidsel, hovedtøj…
betsel, remtyg…
kekang…
das Zaumzeug…
bissel…
вуздечка, повід…
уздечка…
لِجام…
uzda…
kendali…
บังเหียน…
dây cương ngựa…
uzda…
굴레…
briglia…
