overprotect
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
care for like a mother
She fusses over her husband
Types & categories
- give care hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
protect excessively
Don't overprotect your son--he is an adult now!
Types & categories
- protect hypernym
Related & opposite
- momism derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | bustle |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | mother |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | give care |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | momism |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | protect |