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UNCHECKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unchecked mean? 

UNCHECKED (adjective)
  The adjective UNCHECKED has 1 sense:

1. not restrained or controlledplay

  Familiarity information: UNCHECKED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNCHECKED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Not restrained or controlled

Synonyms:

unbridled; unchecked; uncurbed; ungoverned

Context example:

ungoverned rage

Similar:

unrestrained (not subject to restraint)


 Context examples 


A change indeed had taken place in me; my health, which had hitherto declined, was now much restored; and my spirits, when unchecked by the memory of my unhappy promise, rose proportionably.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

HRV thus replicated unchecked in the girl’s respiratory tract, causing severe illness.

(Scientists discover rare genetic susceptibility to common cold, National Institutes of Health)

The most common type of arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation is an irregular beating of the heart that can lead to stroke, blood clots, or heart failure if left unchecked.

(Heart-Checking App May Help Prevent Strokes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

As the blow was given, Emma felt that she could not now shew greater kindness than in listening; and Harriet, unchecked, ran eagerly through what she had to tell.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But feeding the AM fungi with fatty acids is costly, so plants don't let this colonization go unchecked.

(Plant gene discovery could help reduce fertilizer pollution in waterways, National Science Foundation)

Histiocytes in the bone marrow, spleen or lymph nodes become activated to the point that phagocytosis proceeds unchecked.

(Hemophagocytic Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Many Pacific Island countries and territories will lose 50-80 per cent of marine species by the end of the 21st century if climate change and global warming continue unchecked, reports a new study.

(Pacific island fish migrating to cooler seas, SciDev.Net)

Excepting the moments of peculiar delight, which any marked or unlooked-for instance of Edmund's consideration of her in the last few months had excited, Fanny had never known so much felicity in her life, as in this unchecked, equal, fearless intercourse with the brother and friend who was opening all his heart to her, telling her all his hopes and fears, plans, and solicitudes respecting that long thought of, dearly earned, and justly valued blessing of promotion; who could give her direct and minute information of the father and mother, brothers and sisters, of whom she very seldom heard; who was interested in all the comforts and all the little hardships of her home at Mansfield; ready to think of every member of that home as she directed, or differing only by a less scrupulous opinion, and more noisy abuse of their aunt Norris, and with whom (perhaps the dearest indulgence of the whole) all the evil and good of their earliest years could be gone over again, and every former united pain and pleasure retraced with the fondest recollection.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He then explained to me that it was commonly believed that on a certain night of the year—last night, in fact, when all evil spirits are supposed to have unchecked sway—a blue flame is seen over any place where treasure has been concealed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He was following the track, his misgivings increasing with every step which took him nearer to that home which he had never seen, when of a sudden the trees began to thin and the sward to spread out onto a broad, green lawn, where five cows lay in the sunshine and droves of black swine wandered unchecked.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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