Associations to the word «Overprotect»

Wiktionary

OVERPROTECT, verb. To protect to an excessive degree; to coddle

Dictionary definition

OVERPROTECT, verb. Care for like a mother; "She fusses over her husband".
OVERPROTECT, verb. Protect excessively; "Don't overprotect your son--he is an adult now!".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope