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simple past and past participle of constrain examples
comparative more constrained, superlative most constrained
Kept within close bounds; confined. quotations examples
The epistle is opened and read—with a little wonder, most probably not a little vexation, at its constrained style.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 54
Forced; compelled. examples