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overreacted

overreacted is the simple past and past participle of overreact.

Meaning of overreact

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.

Questions about overreacted

What is overreacted the simple past and past participle of?
Overreacted is the simple past and past participle of overreact.

Words near overreacted in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overreacted (page history and authors); overreact (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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