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What (who) is over-react - definition
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REACT; React (album); REACT (disambiguation); React (disambiguation); React (song)
over-react
see overreact
React
·vt To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
II. React ·vi To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
III. React ·vi To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
react
(reacts, reacting, reacted)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
When you react to something that has happened to you, you behave in a particular way because of it.
They reacted violently to the news...
It's natural to react with disbelief if your child is accused of bullying...
= respond
VERB: V to n, V adv/prep, also V
2.
If you react against someone's way of behaving, you deliberately behave in a different way because you do not like the way they behave.
My father never saved and perhaps I reacted against that.
= rebel
VERB: V against n
3.
If you react to a substance such as a drug, or to something you have touched, you are affected unpleasantly or made ill by it.
Someone allergic to milk is likely to react to cheese...
VERB: V to n, also V
4.
When one chemical substance reacts with another, or when two chemical substances react, they combine chemically to form another substance.
Calcium reacts with water...
Under normal circumstances, these two gases react readily to produce carbon dioxide and water.
V-RECIP: V with n, pl-n V
Examples of use of over-react
1. "Just maybe we over–react to everything too much.
2. The European Union had urged trading partners not to over–react to the sp...
3. "I would urge parents not to over–react to these risks.
4. The European Union had urged trading partners not to over–react to t...
5. Foreign Minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri said he was saddened but would not over–react.