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Meaning of overrestrained | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

Excessively restrained.

Examples

“The patient felt unable to tolerate his alternately seductive and passive, overrestrained behavior.”
“It continues to pin bankers in an overregulated and overrestrained structure and adds considerable microregulatory imperatives.”
“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).”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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