unrestrained
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unrestrained (comparative more unrestrained, superlative most unrestrained)
- immoderate; not restrained or held in check; inordinate (literary);
- The party was a scene of unrestrained debauchery.
- spontaneous, natural and informal; unconstrained
- Their meeting was one of unrestrained joy.
- Not subject to physical restraint.
- 2009, Russell Colling, Tony W. York, Hospital and Healthcare Security, page 346:
- Managing unrestrained prisoners alone in any environment is inherently dangerous and should not be tolerated.
- 2021 December 29, Dominique Louis, “Causal analysis: crashworthiness at Sandilands”, in RAIL, number 947, page 32:
- In an accident there will often be injuries, as people are unrestrained. But in the case of Sandilands, I don't think anyone would have foreseen the seven deaths and 62 injuries that occurred when the tram overturned [...].
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[edit]not held in check
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unconstrained
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Verb
[edit]unrestrained
- simple past and past participle of unrestrain