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ALL meanings of overcontrolled

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  • verb with object overcontrolled to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops. 1
  • verb with object overcontrolled to hold in check; curb: to control a horse; to control one's emotions. 1
  • verb with object overcontrolled to test or verify (a scientific experiment) by a parallel experiment or other standard of comparison. 1
  • verb with object overcontrolled to eliminate or prevent the flourishing or spread of: to control a forest fire. 1
  • verb with object overcontrolled Obsolete. to check or regulate (transactions), originally by means of a duplicate register. 1
  • noun overcontrolled the act or power of controlling; regulation; domination or command: Who's in control here? 1
  • noun overcontrolled the situation of being under the regulation, domination, or command of another: The car is out of control. 1
  • noun overcontrolled check or restraint: Her anger is under control. 1
  • noun overcontrolled a legal or official means of regulation or restraint: to institute wage and price controls. 1
  • noun overcontrolled Statistics. control variable (def 1). 1
  • noun overcontrolled a person who acts as a check; controller. 1
  • noun overcontrolled a device for regulating and guiding a machine, as a motor or airplane. 1
  • noun overcontrolled controls, a coordinated arrangement of such devices. 1
  • noun overcontrolled prevention of the flourishing or spread of something undesirable: rodent control. 1
  • noun overcontrolled Baseball. the ability of a pitcher to throw the ball into the strike zone consistently: The rookie pitcher has great power but no control. 1
  • noun overcontrolled Philately. any device printed on a postage or revenue stamp to authenticate it as a government issue or to identify it for bookkeeping purposes. 1
  • noun overcontrolled a spiritual agency believed to assist a medium at a séance. 1
  • noun overcontrolled the supervisor to whom an espionage agent reports when in the field. 1
  • adjective overcontrolled excessively controlled 0
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