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overreact

UK/ˌəʊvəɹiˈækt//ˌoʊ.vəɹ.ɹiˈækt/

overreact verb: to react too much or too intensely.

Verb

overreact (third-person singular simple present overreacts, present participle overreacting, simple past and past participle overreacted)

  1. To react too much or too intensely.
    • Please try not to overreact if she drives badly when she is first learning.
    • overreact to bad news

overreact meaning in Malayalam, Arabic, Thai and Vietnamese

overreact in Malayalam

act irrationally, react disproportionately, lose one's sense of proportion
ആവശ്യത്തിൽ കൂടുതൽ വികാരം കൊള്ളുക, അയുക്തികമായി പ്രതികരിക്കുക, യുക്തിസഹമല്ലാതെ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക, യുക്തിഹീനമായി പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക, സമനിലതെറ്റുക, ഊതിപ്പെരുപ്പിക്കുക

overreact in Arabic

react too much or too intensely
ثور بصورة مبالغة thawr bisurat mubalagha

overreact in Thai

react too much or too intensely
แสดงออก S̄ædngxxk

overreact in Vietnamese

react too much or too intensely
phản ứng thái quá

Forms of overreact

third-person singular presentoverreacts
present participleoverreacting
past participleoverreacted
pastoverreacted

Past tense of overreact: overreacted

Origin of overreact

From over- + react.

Words formed from overreact

Questions about overreact

What does overreact mean?
Overreact means to react too much or too intensely.
What is overreact in Malayalam?
Overreact in Malayalam is ആവശ്യത്തിൽ കൂടുതൽ വികാരം കൊള്ളുക, അയുക്തികമായി പ്രതികരിക്കുക, യുക്തിസഹമല്ലാതെ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക. See Overreact meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is overreact?
Overreact is a verb.
How do you pronounce overreact?
Overreact is pronounced /ˌoʊ.vəɹ.ɹiˈækt/ (US).
What is the past tense of overreact?
The past tense of overreact is overreacted.

Words near overreact in the dictionary

  1. overreacheth
  2. overreaching
  3. overreachingly
  4. overreachingness
  5. overreachings
  6. overreact
  7. overreacted
  8. overreacter
  9. overreacters
  10. overreacting
  11. overreaction

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overreact (page history and authors); overreact (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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