continue/grow/go unchecked• On the other hand, their behavior is too incendiary to go unchecked.• Stretched to the limit ... police chief says pettycrime is going unchecked.• This policy attitude has continued unchecked.• These acts of aggressionwent unchecked because the powers that might have stopped them had problems of their own.• The corruptionwent unchecked because the system could not afford to acknowledge the extent of its own inefficiencies and failures.• I believe that here at home if these offences are allowed to continue unchecked our moralstandards will be lowered.• If allowed to grow unchecked, the algae would smother the reefs.