Crossword-Solution: OVERACT 7 letters, 32 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
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.
Public Opinion Walter Lippmann 2004
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.
The Elements of Character Mary G. Chandler 2005
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.
Paris As It Was and As It Is Francis W. Blagdon 2005
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.
The Spectator, Volume 1 Joseph Addison and Richard Steele 2005
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.
Diet and Health Lulu Hunt Peters 2005

Quotes with OVERACT (2)

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
Karl Lagerfeld
- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.
Peter S. Beagle The Last Unicorn
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).