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BEYOND CONTROL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does beyond control mean?
• BEYOND CONTROL (adverb)
The adverb BEYOND CONTROL has 1 sense:
1. out of control
Familiarity information: BEYOND CONTROL used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Out of control
Synonyms:
beyond control; out of hand
Context example:
the riots got out of hand
Context examples
The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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