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
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 Mary Baker Eddy
The pineal glands of a number of young bullocks were obtained and used for feeding, to see whether an overaction of the internal secretion could be produced.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
Many persons refer the cause to our climate; others to the overaction of the brain and nerves in childhood and youth by our schools, and by the exhaustive excitements of social and fashionable life.
From The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 by Various
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
