Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Excessive care or anxiety.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Excessive care.
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- verb intransitive To
care too much.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Finally healthy and freed from the burden of overcare, my life began to flourish.
Love For No Reason Marci Shimoff 2010
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My care for the children had gone off the rails and turned into “overcare.”
Love For No Reason Marci Shimoff 2010
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My care for the children had gone off the rails and turned into “overcare.”
Love For No Reason Marci Shimoff 2010
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Finally healthy and freed from the burden of overcare, my life began to flourish.
Love For No Reason Marci Shimoff 2010
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He grouped his flower essences into the following broad categories: Fear, uncertainty, lack of interest in present circumstances, loneliness, oversensitivity, despondency or despair, and overcare for the welfare of others.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994
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He grouped his flower essences into the following broad categories: Fear, uncertainty, lack of interest in present circumstances, loneliness, oversensitivity, despondency or despair, and overcare for the welfare of others.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994
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He grouped his flower essences into the following broad categories: Fear, uncertainty, lack of interest in present circumstances, loneliness, oversensitivity, despondency or despair, and overcare for the welfare of others.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994
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He grouped his flower essences into the following broad categories: Fear, uncertainty, lack of interest in present circumstances, loneliness, oversensitivity, despondency or despair, and overcare for the welfare of others.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994
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That seemed a condition of his mysterious overcare of Rodman.
The Sleuth of St. James's Square Melville Davisson Post
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From the first she was sensitive and high-strung, nervously damaged probably in her early years by her mother's restless, unwise overcare.
Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Robert S. Carroll
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