"overact" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˌəʊvəɹˈækt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-overact.wav [Southern-England] Forms: overacts [present, singular, third-person], overacting [participle, present], overacted [participle, past], overacted [past]
Etymology: over- + act Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|over|act}} over- + act Head templates: {{en-verb}} overact (third-person singular simple present overacts, present participle overacting, simple past and past participle overacted)
  1. (acting) To act in an exaggerated manner. Categories (topical): Acting Translations (act in an exaggerated manner): преигравам (preigravam) (Bulgarian), overacteren (Dutch), ylinäytellä (Finnish), übertrieben spielen (German), übertreiben (German), eltúloz (Hungarian), túljátszik (Hungarian), gigioneggiare (Italian), exagerar (Portuguese), переигрывать (pereigryvatʹ) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-overact-en-verb-lJ0U7sJD Topics: acting, broadcasting, entertainment, film, lifestyle, media, television, theater Disambiguation of 'act in an exaggerated manner': 95 5
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To act upon, or influence, unduly. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-overact-en-verb-wW9gkfLd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with over- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 95 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with over-: 26 74
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: chew the scenery, ham, ham it up, melodramatize, tear a cat Derived forms: overactor

Inflected forms

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