uncheckedadjective
uk/ʌnˈtʃekt/us/ʌnˈtʃekt/If something harmful is unchecked, it is continuing or increasing without or despite any limits or attempts to prevent it:
If current trends go/continue unchecked, obesity will become the number one cause of death in this country.
The war raged on, unchecked by the UN's efforts to stop it.
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Uncontrolled
- all hell breaks loose idiom
- amok
- amuck
- cut loose idiom
- extravagant
- intemperate
- like mad idiom
- mad
- maniacal
- out of hand idiom
- rampant
- raw
- spin
- spiral
- spread like wildfire idiom
- tearaway
- unbridled
- uncontrollable
- unmanageable
- wildfire
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