Overact
- v. i. To act more than is necessary; to go to excess in action.
- v. t. To act or perform to excess; to exaggerate in acting; as, he overacted his part.
- v. t. To act upon, or influence, unduly.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.