controlled

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adjective
  1. held in check; curbed: poorly controlled anger.

  2. carefully regulated, tested, or verified: a controlled experiment.

  1. (of a drug) restricted by law as to possession and use: Morphine is a controlled drug.

Origin of controlled

1
First recorded in 1580–90; control + -ed2

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