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overactive
adjective
Excessively active.
synonyms
Exact(59)
There's no reason for children to avoid caffeine drinks unless they become overactive after having them, which obviously isn't the case with your son.
For years, kids' accounts of seeing, hearing and experiencing things that weren't really there were considered to be part of the same invented world – an "overactive imagination"; a "fantasy world".
And if you disapprove, then in 2010 you witnessed the power of America's system to check an overactive majority.
Short-termism at companies probably owes more to disengaged shareholders than overactive ones.Long-term greed is goodOne reason why shareholder activism has been increasing is that regulators have encouraged it, especially on pay (see article).
But they may also allow viewers such novelties as pausing and rewinding live television broadcasts (handy for the snack-crazed or those with overactive telephones); recording more than one programme at a time; or recording one programme while playing back another.
In one new poll, 72% of all respondents think the government is not doing enough faced with the economic crisis.The trouble for Mr Hollande is that he was elected precisely to replace an overactive president who made the French feel exhausted.
The representative for Long Island has approached this most sensitive of subjects with the delicacy of a steamroller, plus an overactive imagination and a generous dollop of prejudice.
The result is a delightful and hilarious memoir about the characters she loved as a prim girl with an overactive imagination (the hair of "The Little Mermaid" "curls like the waves she lives in") and the ones she has come to admire as an independent thirty-something (Jane Eyre's preternatural calm "now seems like enviable self-possession").
Overactive ERK is as effective as underactive ERK for shutting the cell cycle down.
Much of the film's humour derives from the contrast between Richard's extreme self-consciousness, manifested in extended soliloquies that reveal his overactive imagination, and his neighbour's seeming obliviousness to her sensuous charms.
Overactive ras proteins are found in about 25 percent of all human cancers, including carcinomas of the pancreas, lung, and colon.
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