Usually means: Shield excessively, often limiting growth.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. overprotect: Merriam-Webster
  2. overprotect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overprotect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overprotect: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overprotect: Vocabulary.com
  6. overprotect: Wiktionary
  7. overprotect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. overprotect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. overprotect: Dictionary.com
  10. overprotect: Rhymezone
  11. overprotect: FreeDictionary.org
  12. overprotect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. overprotect: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overprotect: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overprotect: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ verb:  To protect to an excessive degree; to coddle

Similar:
fuss, mother, overcoddle, overparent, overcare, bubble-wrap, overpamper, dote over, overscare, overmother, more...

Opposite:
underprotect, neglect, expose

Types:
smothering, micromanaging, coddling, sheltering, babying, hovering, suffocating, shielding, more...

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Similar:
fuss, mother, overcoddle, overparent, overcare, bubble-wrap, overpamper, dote over, overscare, overmother, more...

Opposite:
underprotect, neglect, expose

Types:
smothering, micromanaging, coddling, sheltering, babying, hovering, suffocating, shielding, more...



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