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overrestrained

overrestrained adjective: excessively restrained. Also the simple past and past participle of overrestrain.

Adjective

overrestrained (comparative more overrestrained, superlative most overrestrained)

  1. Excessively restrained.
    • The patient felt unable to tolerate his alternately seductive and passive, overrestrained behavior.1959, The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, page 143
    • It continues to pin bankers in an overregulated and overrestrained structure and adds considerable microregulatory imperatives.1992, Proceedings of a Conference on Bank Structure and Competition

Also used as

overrestrained is also the simple past and past participle of overrestrain.

Forms of overrestrained

comparativemore overrestrained
superlativemost overrestrained

Origin of overrestrained

From over- + restrained.

Questions about overrestrained

What does overrestrained mean?
Overrestrained means excessively restrained.
What part of speech is overrestrained?
Overrestrained is an adjective.

Words near overrestrained in the dictionary

  1. overrestoration
  2. overrestore
  3. overrestored
  4. overrestoring
  5. overrestrain
  6. overrestrained
  7. overrestraining
  8. overrestrains
  9. overrestrict
  10. overrestricted
  11. overrestricting

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