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hyperreacting

hyperreacting is the present participle and gerund of hyperreact.

Meaning of hyperreact

Verb

hyperreact (third-person singular simple present hyperreacts, present participle hyperreacting, simple past and past participle hyperreacted)

  1. Synonym of overreact.
    • Where profits are limited under the regulatory contract, the 'utility' tends to hypercontrol of the market and hyperreact against new entry.1985, Erik Arnold, Competition and Technological Change in the Television Industry
    Synonyms:
    overreact

Questions about hyperreacting

What is hyperreacting the present participle and gerund of?
Hyperreacting is the present participle and gerund of hyperreact.

Words near hyperreacting in the dictionary

  1. hyperrational
  2. hyperrationality
  3. hyperrationalize
  4. hyperreact
  5. hyperreacted
  6. hyperreacting
  7. hyperreaction
  8. hyperreactions
  9. hyperreactive
  10. hyperreactiveness
  11. hyperreactivities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hyperreacting (page history and authors); hyperreact (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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