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third-person singular simple present overacts, present participle overacting, simple past and past participle overacted
(acting) To act in an exaggerated manner. examples
(obsolete, transitive) To act upon, or influence, unduly. quotations
The hope of inheritance overacts them.
1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […]