overact
verb (used with or without object)
to act in an exaggerated manner.
overaction
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a word derived from
overact.
Example Sentences
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Said the New York Herald Tribune's Sports Editor Stanley Woodward: "Knowing he was under fire for timidity, Chandler took refuge in overaction . . . .the most colossal piece of injustice and bravado yet perpetrated."
From Time Magazine Archive
If the overaction or excess of secretion begins in childhood or adolescence, that is, before puberty, there results a great elongation of the bones, so that a giant is the consequence.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
All grades of overaction of the pituitary exist.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
Rest would, indeed, recruit the body, worn out by the mind's overaction, but the mind also needed some healing process.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
And like its variations, variations of their tone, development, reactivity, fatigability, and endurance may be traced to corresponding states of overaction, or underaction, and odd combinations of the different hormones.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
