Crossword-Solution: OVERACT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overact | v. t. | To act or perform to excess; to exaggerate in acting; as, he overacted his part. |
| Overact | v. t. | To act upon, or influence, unduly. |
| Overact | v. i. | To act more than is necessary; to go to excess in action. |
We have 32 clues for the answer “OVERACT”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Wrongly take center stage? | 1 answer |
| Strain for effect. | 1 answer |
| Risk a bad review | 1 answer |
| Play up the drama. | 1 answer |
| Play part exaggeratedly | 1 answer |
| Perform hammily | 1 answer |
| Indulge in histrionics. | 1 answer |
| Exaggerate, in a role. | 1 answer |
| Exaggerate in acting. | 1 answer |
| Exaggerate a role. | 1 answer |
| CAMP it up | 1 answer |
| Be heavy-handed, in a way | 1 answer |
| "Saw the air." | 1 answer |
| "Saw the air too much with your hand," in Shakespeare's words | 1 answer |
| exaggerate one's acting | 2 answers |
| Do too much | 2 answers |
| Exaggerate on stage | 2 answers |
| Play the ham | 2 answers |
| Emulate a ham | 2 answers |
| Play to the balcony | 3 answers |
| Mug, say | 3 answers |
| Mug, e.g. | 3 answers |
| Be hammy | 3 answers |
| Be a ham | 4 answers |
| Ham it up | 6 answers |
| CHEW THE SCENERY CHEWER | 10 answers |
| Chew the scenery | 11 answers |
| play to the gallery | 14 answers |
| Emote | 17 answers |
| dramatise | 32 answers |
| Ham | 44 answers |
| Exaggerate | 69 answers |
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Sentences with OVERACT (5)
They can perversely ignore it, though they will cripple themselves in the process, will overact their part and come to grief.
The former are apt to forget themselves occasionally, or they overact their part, or if they succeed in sustaining a perfect elegance of deportment that is really pleasing as an effort of art, they always want the grace of naturalness and simplicity which belongs to the Manners of those who have made courtesy and refinement their own by loving them.
Undoubtedly, many persons of a true taste and an experienced ear have disappeared, and no one now seems inclined to say to the performers: "That is the point which you must attain, and at which you must stop, if you wish not to appear deficient, or to overact your part." But the fact is, they are without a good model, and the spectators, in general, are strangers to the _minutiæ/i> of dramatic excellence.
The brisk Lightning, I.'] [Footnote 4: William Bullock was a good and popular comedian, whom some preferred to Penkethman, because he spoke no more than was set down for him, and did not overact his parts.
You raise your blood pressure, the internal secretory glands may overact (re-read what I have said about these glands in the fat people), and thus many more calories are used.
Quotes with OVERACT (2)
Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 47 times in crossword archives (1946–2023).