overreact
verb (used without object)
to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
were overreacting
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past progressiveof overreact.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Critics suggested they were overreacting, predicting the result would be fewer people getting vaccinated and more dying of covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2021
Catherine Linaweaver, who retired in 2014 after 16 months as the MCC’s warden, said some people were overreacting to Epstein’s suicide because he was well known.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 12, 2019
Had you not sent me a photo of one of the postcards, I might have thought you were overreacting, but you are … not.
From Slate ● Jul. 26, 2019
Mr. Drouin said he believed Canadians were overreacting to the Border Patrol stops.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2018
“I told them that they were overreacting, and that their parents were as well.”
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2016
