Definition of "overprotect" [overprotect]

• To protect too much; coddle: overprotected their children. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "They should protect benefits against inflation but not overprotect them."
• "Aggressive marketing these days has most of us, even kids, wearing shoes that in many cases overprotect the foot."
• ""I don't want to overprotect him, to keep asking him how he's doing.""