overhelp
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overhelp (third-person singular simple present overhelps, present participle overhelping, simple past and past participle overhelped)
- To supply with too much help.
- 2008, Rich Weinfeld, Michelle Davis, Special Needs Advocacy Resource Book:
- Modify homework and independent projects to the child's instructional or independent level, so that parents are not forced to overhelp the child.
- 2012, Mark R. Leary, June Price Tangney, Handbook of Self and Identity, page 561:
- Gilbert and Silvera (1996) found that overhelping can be used to spoil another person's identity by causing onlookers to attribute the other's success to the help.