overprotect
IPA: oʊvɝprʌtˈɛkt
verb
- To protect to an excessive degree; to coddle
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Examples of "overprotect" in Sentences
- Idiots who overprotect their copyrights really bother me.
- "I don't want to overprotect him, to keep asking him how he's doing."
- They should protect benefits against inflation but not overprotect them.
- Aggressive marketing these days has most of us, even kids, wearing shoes that in many cases overprotect the foot.
- I still worry though and tend to overprotect him, but he's a sweet kid and I think his dad & I have done a pretty good job raising him.
- College educators know this, and parents who overprotect their kids frustrate them as well as the college personnel who are there to help guide them.
- These writers point out how parents 'tendencies to hover and overprotect their kids are destroying children's initiative and making them feel incompetent and inadequate.
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