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Webster 1828 Edition


Controlled

CONTROLLED

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Checked; restrained; governed.

Definition 2024


controlled

controlled

English

Adjective

controlled (comparative more controlled, superlative most controlled)

  1. Inhibited or restrained in one's words and actions.
  2. Resulting from a comparison with control samples.
  3. (in combination) Under the control of the specified entity.
    • 1973, Noel Pitts Gist, ‎Roy Dean Wright, Marginality and Identity (page 150)
      The history of the Anglo-Indian Community in British-controlled India is one of many ups and downs, of vicissitudes and prosperity, of security and insecurity.

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Verb

controlled

  1. simple past tense and past participle of control

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