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underrestrains

underrestrains is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 underrestrains

What is underrestrains the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Underrestrains is the third-person singular simple present indicative of underrestrain.

Words near underrestrains in the dictionary

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

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