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Definition of Overaction
1. n. Per&?;ormance to excess; exaggerated or excessive action.
Definition of Overaction
1. Noun. Excessive action (as of a muscle of the body). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overaction
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overaction
Literary usage of Overaction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1858)
"... Wise Man in Practice—All his Structures have perished— Defeated his own Ends
by overaction—Could have preserved a Moderately Consolidated Government—Was ..."
2. Nervous and mental diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1899)
"In the face the tendency to contracture is frequently only shown in an overaction
of the facial muselés during emotional expressions, as shown in figure 87, ..."
3. Hygiene of the Eye by William Campbell Posey (1918)
"A, depicts the repression sometimes indicative of an overaction of the muscle*
pulling the eyes in. ft, weakness in the same group of muscles (Stevens, ..."
4. American Homoeopathic Review (1866)
"... asphyxia of the foetus is often owing, not so much to the compression of the
cord, as to the medicinal overaction of such drugs as Chloroform, Ether, ..."
5. Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and by United States Congress, Joseph Gales, William Winston Seaton (1837)
"Chiefly "overaction in all the departments of business," stimulated by "excessive
issues of bank paper," and by other facilities of credit, and bringing in ..."
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