Anagrams of: ABCDENRU

• a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens

• positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger

• held up by braces or buttresses

• undo the ties of

• remove from tension

• remove a brace or braces from

• an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter)

• a stock exchange in New York, previously known as the New York Curb Exchange

• a horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse

• the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess

• lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits

• keep to the curb

• place restrictions on

• advance evidence for

• imprisonment (especially for a long time)

• a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces

• a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides

• the product of three equal terms

• any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone

• a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube

• raise to the third power

• cut into cubes

• treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point

• destroyed or badly damaged by fire

• ruined by overcooking