overreactv.
/ˌəʊvərɪˈakt/, U.S. /ˈˌoʊvə(r)riˈæk(t)/ intransitive. To react excessively; to react with excessive emotion or vehemence; to respond with greater force than is necessary or justifiable.
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the world > action or operation > doing > act or do [verb (intransitive)] > react > excessively
overreact1919
1919 J. B. Watson Psychol. iii. 110 The eye under-reacts to acute angles and over-reacts to obtuse angles.
1937 Social Forces 15 442/2 Bentley has over-reacted against what he dubs the ‘old-mind language’.
1968 Listener 26 Sept. 410/1 This was the first escalation, triggered off when the militants goaded the authorities into over-reacting, closing the faculties and calling in the police.
1987 J. Smith Masculine Ending ix. 132 Now you're overreacting... I'm sure Geoffrey wasn't gloating. It was just thoughtlessness.
1996 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) Sept. 92/1 It's humiliating to overreact to an imagined slight and then discover you've made a grand error.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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