overreact

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Meaning

show an exaggerated response to something

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Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act. They react to the problems, pains, lives, and behaviors of others. They react to their own problems, pains, and behaviors. Melody Beattie

Behaviorists tell us that we tend to overweight and overreact to the most recently received information. If we do, we will find that the information that we thought was so important becomes tempered, and reduced in significance, by new and related information that follows. Robert Haugen

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact. Darrell Issa

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact. Jerry Saltz

[H]istorical patterns are clear: When Europeans feel sufficiently threatened–even when the threat's concocted nonsense–they don't just react, they overreact with stunning ferocity. One of their more humane (and frequently employed) techniques has been ethnic cleansing. Ralph Peters

Life is always full of drama and challenges, but you don't have to overreact to any of it if you choose not to. Sonia Choquette

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