overreacting
v.v. to respond to a situation with much more emotion or worry than is actually needed. You use this when someone is making a small problem seem like a huge disaster.
v. responding with disproportionate intensity or emotion to a stimulus or situation. Often used in the present continuous to describe current behavior.
I think you are overreacting to a very small mistake.
When the flight was delayed by only ten minutes, he started overreacting and shouting at the gate agent.
Market analysts warned that investors were overreacting to the quarterly report, noting that the slight dip in profits did not reflect the company's long-term stability.
Intransitive verb; does not take a direct object. Frequently used in the progressive aspect ('be overreacting').
She is overreacting the news.She is overreacting to the news.Overreacting is intransitive and requires the preposition 'to' before the cause of the reaction.