From over- + restrained. <span class="searchmatch">overrestrained</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">overrestrained</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">overrestrained</span>) Excessively restrained. 1959, The Psychoanalytic...
<span class="searchmatch">overrestraining</span> present participle and gerund of overrestrain...
present overrestrains, present participle <span class="searchmatch">overrestraining</span>, simple past and past participle <span class="searchmatch">overrestrained</span>) To restrain too much. 2003, Kunga Tenpay Nyima...
withstrain; See also Thesaurus:curb (deprive of liberty): confine, detain <span class="searchmatch">overrestrained</span> constrain restraint restrict to control or keep in check to deprive...
formally punishing—and, as a result, by capriciously underrestraining and <span class="searchmatch">overrestraining</span>—persons guilty of crimes, this fiction endangers the safety of our...