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overplayed

vb. (en-past of: overplay)

Usage examples of "overplayed".

Some of the watchers and agents in our ranks overplayed their hands when their regular channels to the outside were cut off.

It was during a second, intensive questioning of Scaevinus that Rufus overplayed his role as inquisitor, browbeating Scaevinus mercilessly.