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misreacting

misreacting is the present participle and gerund of misreact.

Meaning of misreact

Verb

misreact (third-person singular simple present misreacts, present participle misreacting, simple past and past participle misreacted)

  1. To react inappropriately.
    • According to Peter Griffin, Hemingway's naturalized conception of homosexuals was based on their “tendency to overreact or, better, to misreact, because their emotions were somehow short-circuited."2002, Linda Wagner-Martin, Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: A Casebook, page 78

Questions about misreacting

What is misreacting the present participle and gerund of?
Misreacting is the present participle and gerund of misreact.

Words near misreacting in the dictionary

  1. misreached
  2. misreaches
  3. misreaching
  4. misreact
  5. misreacted
  6. misreacting
  7. misreaction
  8. misreactions
  9. misreacts
  10. misread
  11. misreadable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misreacting (page history and authors); misreact (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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