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underrestraining

underrestraining is the present participle and gerund of underrestrain.

Meaning of underrestrain

Verb

underrestrain (third-person singular simple present underrestrains, present participle underrestraining, simple past and past participle underrestrained)

  1. To fail to restrain sufficiently.
    • By enabling us to divert certain criminals from the penal to the psychiatric system, the fiction of mental illness as destroyer of mens rea protects us from guilt for punishing guilty but crazy criminals; by eschewing formally punishing—and, as a result, by capriciously underrestraining and...1997, Thomas Szasz, Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences, →ISBN, page 272

Questions about underrestraining

What is underrestraining the present participle and gerund of?
Underrestraining is the present participle and gerund of underrestrain.

Words near underrestraining in the dictionary

  1. underresponsive
  2. underresponsiveness
  3. underresponsivity
  4. underrestrain
  5. underrestrained
  6. underrestraining
  7. underrestrains
  8. underresuscitate
  9. underresuscitated
  10. underresuscitates
  11. underresuscitating

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