Definition of Overreacted

1. Verb. (past of overreact) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overreacted

1. overreact [v] - See also: overreact

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overreacted

overrank
overrash
overrate
overrated
overratedness
overrates
overrating
overreached
overreacher
overreachers
overreaches
overreaching
overreachingly
overreact
overreacted (current term)
overreacting
overreaction
overreactions
overreacts
overread
overreadiness
overreading
overreads
overready
overreckon
overreckoned
overreckoning
overreckons
overred

Literary usage of Overreacted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair by Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye (1995)
"It seems clear, with 20/20 hindsight, that Casey and Poindexter overreacted. They may even have used the Post story as a convenient peg in their ongoing ..."

2. Mentoring Across Boundaries: Helping Beginning Teachers Succeed in by Jean Boreen, Donna Niday, Mary K. Johnson (2003)
"The strategy worked in that the noise level remained at an acceptable level, but I felt that I had overreacted. Upon reflection, I believe that I could have ..."

3. The First Yugoslavia: Search for a Viable Political System by Alex N. Dragnich (1983)
"... some foreign newspapers expressed the belief that Pasic had overreacted. In any case, in Croatia the actions against Radic, far from hurting him, ..."

4. Central Asia and the World: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan by Michael Mandelbaum (1994)
"That the Chinese overreacted, there is little doubt. But given the other events occurring at the time of the disturbances, the Chinese response is ..."

5. The Life and Letters of Alexander Wilson by Alexander Wilson, Clark Hunter (1983)
"Unfortunately the Wilson faction overreacted, especially George Ord and Charles Waterton, a fearless if capricious English naturalist. ..."

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