Definition of "overprotected" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of overprotect. (verb)

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• "Too many children in this generation are overprotected, over-programmed, and destined for safe, joyless lives."
• "The folks at the front lines find that today's students lack the most basic coping skills, because growing up they were overprotected, never allowed to mess up or to experience discomfort, never encouraged to take risks."
• "But if you're overprotected with liners and sanitizing gels, you're not exposed to the few germs that might be on a shopping cart, and so you're made more susceptible to every serious bug that crosses your path."