overrestrained

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