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overreacts

overreacts is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 overreacts

What is overreacts the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overreacts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overreact.

Words near overreacts in the dictionary

  1. overreactive
  2. overreactivities
  3. overreactivity
  4. overreactor
  5. overreactors
  6. overreacts
  7. overread
  8. overreader
  9. overreaders
  10. overreadily
  11. overreadiness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overreacts (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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