overact - meaning and definition. What is overact
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What (who) is overact - definition


Overact      
·vt To act upon, or influence, unduly.
II. Overact ·vi To act more than is necessary; to go to excess in action.
III. Overact ·vt To act or perform to excess; to exaggerate in acting; as, he overacted his part.
overact      
¦ verb act a role in an exaggerated manner.
overact      
(overacts, overacting, overacted)
If you say that someone overacts, you mean they exaggerate their emotions and movements, usually when acting in a play.
Sometimes he had overacted in his role as Prince.
VERB: V
Examples of use of overact
1. "The main thing we see is the police have a tendency to overact," says Yoav Loeff, an ACRI spokesman in Jerusalem.