overprotect

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overprotect (third-person singular simple present overprotects, present participle overprotecting, simple past and past participle overprotected)

To protect to an excessive degree; to coddle

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Protect to an excessive degree

French: surprotéger (fr), hyperprotéger (fr)
Galician: sobreprotexer
German: überbehüten
Portuguese: superproteger f
Spanish: sobreproteger (es), hiperproteger