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overact


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Overact  \O`ver*act"\,  v.  t. 
  1.  To  act  or  perform  to  excess;  to  exaggerate  in  acting;  as 
  he  overacted  his  part 
 
  2.  To  act  upon  or  influence,  unduly.  [Obs.] 
 
  The  hope  of  inheritance  overacts  them  --Milton. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Overact  \O`ver*act"\,  v.  i. 
  To  act  more  than  is  necessary;  to  go  to  excess  in  action 
  --B.  Jonson 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  overact 
  v  :  exaggerate  one's  acting  [syn:  {ham},  {overplay}]  [ant:  {underact}] 




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