Usually means: Excessive response to minor issue.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. overreaction: Merriam-Webster
  2. overreaction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overreaction: Collins English Dictionary
  4. overreaction: Vocabulary.com
  5. Overreaction, overreaction: Wordnik
  6. overreaction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. overreaction: Wiktionary
  8. overreaction: Dictionary.com
  9. overreaction: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Overreaction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. overreaction: Rhymezone
  12. overreaction: FreeDictionary.org
  13. overreaction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. overreaction: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. overreaction: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Overreaction: Investopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. overreaction: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Overreaction: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. overreaction: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overreaction: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  A reaction that is excessive.

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