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What does overprotective mean?

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Adjective
  1. excessively protective, wanting to give too much protection (especially to children)
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He feared he was acting the overprotective father, but there was something about William Brown-Lee that simply did not fit.
The real world is often not so nice, and being overprotective doesn't always help students.
Besides, this thinking goes, families tend to be overprotective, risk averse and are to be mistrusted.
The first of these heresies was the tendency to be overprotective of people, at the expense of individual liberty.
Funny how having daughters turns you into an old-fashioned, overprotective prude.
Lee has reasons to be a little neurotic, among them an alcoholic father, an overprotective mother and a shallow newlywed sister.

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