catastrophize

English

Verb

catastrophize (third-person singular simple present catastrophizes, present participle catastrophizing, simple past and past participle catastrophized)

To regard a bad situation as if it were disastrous or catastrophic.
(obsolete) To end a comedy.

Quotations

1623 Henry Cockeram, Chauncey Brewster Tinker - The English Dictionarie of 1623
‘To end a Comedy or the like’ (Quoted in OED)
1947 Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, University of Michigan Research Center for Group Dynamics - Human Relations
Particularly likely to overreact are those who tend to catastrophize (Ellis, 1962) and those who have Type A personalities (Friedman & Rosenman, 1974)
2001 David H. Barlow - Clinical Handbook of Psychological Disorders
Another way to catastrophize is to jump to an extreme conclusion from an unimportant or irrelevant event.

References

OED 2nd edition 1989 + 2004 (online)

单词	catastrophize
释义	catastrophize English Verb catastrophize (third-person singular simple present catastrophizes, present participle catastrophizing, simple past and past participle catastrophized) To regard a bad situation as if it were disastrous or catastrophic. (obsolete) To end a comedy. Quotations 1623 Henry Cockeram, Chauncey Brewster Tinker - The English Dictionarie of 1623 ‘To end a Comedy or the like’ (Quoted in OED) 1947 Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, University of Michigan Research Center for Group Dynamics - Human Relations Particularly likely to overreact are those who tend to catastrophize (Ellis, 1962) and those who have Type A personalities (Friedman & Rosenman, 1974) 2001 David H. Barlow - Clinical Handbook of Psychological Disorders Another way to catastrophize is to jump to an extreme conclusion from an unimportant or irrelevant event. References OED 2nd edition 1989 + 2004 (online)
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