Definition of "overprotective" []

• Excessively protective, wanting to give too much protection (especially to children) (adjective)

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• "I was outraged, but the word overprotective was being scattershot at me by the bureaucrats in charge, the two social workers, and a psychologist."
• "Whether you would call it overprotective or not, I am, apparently, a bit superstitious."
• "The ban wasn't the idea of overprotective educrats -- it was the result rather of children and their parents who "complained that they'd been chased or harassed against their will.""