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▸ adjective: Protective; zealously guarding; careful in the protection of something (or someone) one has or appreciates, especially one's spouse or lover.
▸ adjective: Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise.
▸ adjective: Suspicious; apprehensive.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive, slang) To harass or attack (somebody) out of jealousy.
▸ verb: (transitive, Australian Aboriginal) To deliberately make (someone) jealous of another person's (often their partner's) associations with other people.
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envious,
covetous,
desirous,
overjealous,
distrustful,
green-eyed,
paranoid,
prepossessed,
conspiratorial,
enemied,
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