Unchecked
[ʌn'tʃekt] or ['ʌn'tʃɛkt]
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unrestrained, unhampered, unobstructed.
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Definition
adj. not checked or hindered unrestrained: uncontradicted.—adj. Uncheck′able.
Typed by Dominic
Examples
- A small band of alien herdsmen, says Sir Mark Sykes, wandering unchecked through crusades and counter-crusades, principalities, empires, and states. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His friends were telling him that his defeat was temporary, that the work he had begun was unchecked. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Its rapidity was unchecked, and its feebleness had increased. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- What might have been the end of this fretting, had it continued unchecked, can only be conjectured: it received, however, a sudden turn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Nothing galls me more than the notion of turning round and running away before this slander, leaving it unchecked behind me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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