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Definition of Overacts
1. overact [v] - See also: overact
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overacts
Literary usage of Overacts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Of all the evils which the stage molest, hate your fool who overacts his jest;
Who murders what the poet finely writ, And, like a bungler, ..."
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