overrestrained

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English

Etymology

From over- +‎ restrained.

Adjective

overrestrained (comparative more overrestrained, superlative most overrestrained)

  1. Excessively restrained.
    • 1959, The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, page 143:
      The patient felt unable to tolerate his alternately seductive and passive, overrestrained behavior.
    • 1992, Proceedings of a Conference on Bank Structure and Competition:
      It continues to pin bankers in an overregulated and overrestrained structure and adds considerable microregulatory imperatives.
    • 2007, Bruce A. Thyer, John S. Wodarski, Social Work in Mental Health: An Evidence-Based Approach, →ISBN, page 104:
      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).

Verb

overrestrained

  1. simple past and past participle of overrestrain