beyond control

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   out of control

   “the riots got out of hand”

   Synonymsout of hand

Questions about beyond control

What does beyond control mean?

beyond control means "out of control".

What is another word for beyond control?

Close synonyms include out of hand. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beyond control a common word?

beyond control is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.