overaction
- 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
It should also be remembered that, if the patient is receiving digitalis in good dosage for broken compensation, tachycardia may be caused by an overaction of the digitalis.
From Disturbances of the Heart by Osborne, Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas)
Thought will waken from its own material declaration, "I am dead," to catch this trumpet-word of Truth, "There 428:1 is no death, no inaction, diseased action, overaction, nor reaction."
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker
A general reaction all along the line will accompany overaction, oversecretion, of one gland.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
Extremes meet, and overaction steadfastly returns to the effect of non-action,—bringing, however, the seven devils of disaster in its company.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various
