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overreacting

overreacting is the present participle and gerund 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 overreacting

What is overreacting the present participle and gerund of?
Overreacting is the present participle and gerund of overreact.

Words near overreacting in the dictionary

  1. overreachings
  2. overreact
  3. overreacted
  4. overreacter
  5. overreacters
  6. overreacting
  7. overreaction
  8. overreactions
  9. overreactive
  10. overreactivities
  11. overreactivity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overreacting (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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