Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To protect too much; coddle.
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- verb To
protect to an excessive degree; tocoddle
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb protect excessively
- verb care for like a mother
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Examples
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Aggressive marketing these days has most of us, even kids, wearing shoes that in many cases overprotect the foot.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Free Your Feet, Change Your Life Arthur Rosenfeld 2011
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Aggressive marketing these days has most of us, even kids, wearing shoes that in many cases overprotect the foot.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Free Your Feet, Change Your Life Arthur Rosenfeld 2011
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They should protect benefits against inflation but not overprotect them.
At CPAC, Indiana Gov. Daniels looks at 2012 and decries a 'new red menace' Dan Balz 2011
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Aggressive marketing these days has most of us, even kids, wearing shoes that in many cases overprotect the foot.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Free Your Feet, Change Your Life Arthur Rosenfeld 2011
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"I don't want to overprotect him, to keep asking him how he's doing."
Baseball Helps Japanese Town Heal Gordon Fairclough 2011
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Aggressive marketing these days has most of us, even kids, wearing shoes that in many cases overprotect the foot.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Free Your Feet, Change Your Life Arthur Rosenfeld 2011
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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.
The iConnected Parent Barbara K. Hofer 2010
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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.
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Idiots who overprotect their copyrights really bother me.
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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.
Lisa Firestone: What Is Really Behind the Current "Over-Parenting" Syndrome? 2009
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