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misreact en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + react.

Meanings

1. To react inappropriately.
   • After months or years of such 24/7 inflammation, the leaky gut deteriorates to the point that the immune system starts to overreact, crossreact, and misreact. 2019, Palmer Kippola, Beat Autoimmune:
   • According to Peter Griffin, Hemingway's naturalized conception of homosexuals was based on their “tendency to overreact or, better, to misreact, because their emotions were somehow short-circuited." 2002, Linda Wagner-Martin, Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: A Casebook, page 78:
   • From neuropsychological research, we knowthat the traumatized brain houses inscrutable eccentricities that cause it to overreact—or, more precisely,misreact—to the current realities of life. 2007, Martha Stout, The Paranoia Switch:
   • David–Veronesi suggest that the features that they highlight imply the possibility that option prices misreact to changes in stock prices. 2008, 2008, A Behavioral Approach to Asset Pricing, page 367:
   • And because it projects narrow representations of others as “friend,” “enemy,” or “stranger” that hide their fullness and mystery, we continually misreact to others, causing ourselves and others further misery. 2009, Catherine Cornille, Criteria of Discernment in Interreligious Dialogue:

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