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US
/ˈbɹaɪdəɫ/
]
[ UK /bɹˈaɪdəl/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈaɪdəl/ ]
VERB
-
anger or take offense
She bridled at his suggestion to elope -
put a bridle on
bridle horses - respond to the reins, as of horses
NOUN
- headgear for a horse; includes a headstall and bit and reins to give the rider or driver control
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the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess
his common sense is a bridle to his quick temper
How To Use bridle In A Sentence
- He wears his cap backwards and spits rhymes with fierce energy and unbridled theatrics. The Harvard Crimson :: News
- This appears to have led to his death after he lost control of a scooter on a bridleway above the Wharfe's steep banks near his home. Jimi Heselden obituary
- It is the other side of a public bridle path and almost overgrown with vicious brambles. Times, Sunday Times
- Along the well-marked bridleway, he swung his jacket over his shoulder, neither hut, barn, nor building visible. THE OPEN DOOR
- She bridled at his suggestion to elope
- So she sware to him that she would not do him any hurt or ensorcell him, and bidding bring him a fine horse, saddled and bridled with a golden bridle and decked with trappings all of gold set with jewels, gave the old man a thousand dinars saying, Use this.’’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- He could not however bridle his tongue -- he pronounced the word rascal with great emphasis; said he deserved to be hanged more than a highwayman, and wished he had the scourging him. Joseph Andrews, Volume 2
- I also wonder about Depp and depth, or rather Depp and range, two elements consistently missing in his performances, bridled as they are by a post-Warholian lack of affect or commitment. Johnny Depp is back as a very different Hunter S Thompson
- The classical economist Von Hayek, who authored On the road to serfdom, warned about such interference by government in the economic order which can culminate the unbridle manipulation and pollution of the economic system. Emerging economies must reject handouts and bailouts capitalism
- To see a stand of mature red beech and also kowhai, fuchsia and rata trees choose Bob's Cove Bridle Track, a walk that takes 1.5 hours.