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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne