When Chris overacted his part again, the director warned that anyone overplaying would be barred from the next production.
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Overplay
Synonyms for "overplay" (84 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Verb(5 words)
accentaccentuatecarry too fardramatizeexaggerateexhaustgo overboardgo to extremesgo too farhyperbolizeknow no boundsmagnify
Strong matches (25)
Related words (42)
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9 entriesaggressive bluffdramatic misexecutionemotional overactingexaggerated claimoverbetoverextensionoverstated risktheatrical gestureundue emphasis
Collocations
5 entriesInflections
3 entriesDerivations
3 entriesTranslations
3 translations across 2 languages.
Dutch
2 entries- dramatiseren verb (To present something more dramatically than necessary)
- overdrijven verb (To present something more dramatically than necessary)
French
1 entries- surjouer verb (To present something more dramatically than necessary)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Nevertheless, 3 Body Problem does well to pull us onward, as much through the relentless, but never overplayed, suffering and hardening of Ye Wenjie as she endures her effective imprisonment in the project grounds – and the stealing of her work by others – as by the present day mystery.
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A lot of times I don't want to overplay songs that I really like, because I know that then I'll get sick of them and I don't want to get sick of them.
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Jack won the last match of blackjack; Theo overplayed.
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