Crossword clues for overact
overact
- Emote
- "Saw the air too much with your hand," in Shakespeare's words
- Ham it up
- Play the ham
- Exaggerate recession for a minister in this month
- Public scoffs a starter of cheese and ham
- Plain about account for ham
- Perform hammily
- Ham's old and green - there are even bits of sauce in it
- Ham a cleric sent back during autumn month
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overact \O`ver*act"\, v. i.
To act more than is necessary; to go to excess in action.
--B. Jonson.
Overact \O`ver*act"\, v. t.
To act or perform to excess; to exaggerate in acting; as, he overacted his part.
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To act upon, or influence, unduly. [Obs.]
The hope of inheritance overacts them.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context performing arts English) To act in an exaggerated manner. 2 (context obsolete transitive English) To act upon, or influence, unduly.
WordNet
Usage examples of "overact".
So he overacted wildly, still in pompous, boomy, Shakespearean mode from his audition the day before.
She remembered the many hints she had given her niece concerning her being in love, and imagined the young lady had taken this way to rally her out of her opinion, by an overacted civility: a notion that was greatly corroborated by the excessive gaiety with which the whole was accompanied.
The hero had so overacted his part it had been embarrassing, and Roland acting the master of the house for the first time had been equally so.
Larkin that his gallant friend was a little overacting, and showing perhaps less interest in the discovery than was strictly natural.
Movies started as silent films, so to convey emotions the actors overacted, and someone played a piano along with each reel.