Dictionary

overrestrained en · ADJ

Etymology

From over- + restrained.

Meanings

1. Excessively restrained.
   • 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:
   • Are the youth's behaviors under- or overrestrained? Overrestrained youth tend to be older, more socialized, deceptively mature, academically functional, more violent, and commit fewer CD behaviors than underrestrained youth (Loeber & Hay, 1997). 2007, Bruce A. Thyer, John S. Wodarski, Social Work in Mental Health: An Evidence-Based Approach, →ISBN, page 104:
   • The patient felt unable to tolerate his alternately seductive and passive, overrestrained behavior. 1959, The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, page 143:

Forms

overrestrained en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + restrained.

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of overrestrain
   form of overrestrain