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US
/ˌoʊvɝpɹəˈtɛkt/
]
VERB
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protect excessively
Don't overprotect your son--he is an adult now! -
care for like a mother
She fusses over her husband
How To Use overprotect In A Sentence
- Lee has reasons to be a little neurotic, among them an alcoholic father, an overprotective mother and a shallow newlywed sister.
- Ally's just important to me and I was being a little overprotective.
- Frissa had always been overprotective of him against other women.
- Although parents are advised to treat their child as normally as possible, many parents overprotect and overindulge their child.
- After three years, he decides to play overprotective best friend?
- It has reignited the debate over whether authorities are being overprotective of children.
- And it was a message that was a heat-seeking mis- sile aimed at otherwise clear-thinking individuals who come from the most coddled, overprotected, information-drenched generation in American history. OBAMA ZOMBIES
- It had previously been reported that overprotection by parents increased hopelessness.
- Overprotectionism is killing the age old theory that sometimes the best way to learn what is dangerous is to get hit in the eye with a conker…
- Travelling with a teenage daughter carried its own concerns for an overprotective father, but it also prompted otherwise unlikely encounters.