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Overact
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Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To act more than is necessary; to go to excess in action. B. Jonson.