Usually means: Responding too strongly to situation.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word overreact:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. overreact: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overreact: Merriam-Webster
  3. overreact: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overreact: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overreact: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overreact: Vocabulary.com
  7. Overreact, overreact: Wordnik
  8. overreact: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overreact: Wiktionary
  10. overreact: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. overreact: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. overreact: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. overreact: Dictionary.com
  14. overreact: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. overreact: Rhymezone
  16. overreact: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. overreact: FreeDictionary.org
  18. overreact: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. overreact: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. overreact: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. overreact: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. overreact: Medical dictionary

(Note: See overreacted as well.)

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▸ verb:  To react too much or too intensely.

Similar:
blow out of proportion, overrespond, hyperreact, overemotionalize, overagitate, overfeel, overact, overdo, overactivate, overexaggerate, more...

Opposite:
underreact, remain calm, stay composed, be level-headed

Types:
freak out, flip out, lose it, go off deep end, have meltdown, have hissy fit, more...



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Similar:
blow out of proportion, overrespond, hyperreact, overemotionalize, overagitate, overfeel, overact, overdo, overactivate, overexaggerate, more...

Opposite:
underreact, remain calm, stay composed, be level-headed

Types:
freak out, flip out, lose it, go off deep end, have meltdown, have hissy fit, more...



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