0 past simple and past participle of overreact
1 to react in an extreme, especially an angry or frightened, way:
Try not to overreact to criticism.
So it is not surprising that the public and, to some extent, farmers and landowners have overreacted.
I think that on occasions one side or the other has perhaps overreacted.
The general consensus of opinion is that everybody overreacted all along the line.
My hope and belief is that he may perhaps have overreacted a little.
I believe that we overreacted; obviously, we had to come into the present world.
My noble kinsman said that he thought we had overreacted.
They not only overreacted, but subsequently covered up their mistakes.
I think that on reflection both of them perhaps overreacted to the situation.
