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What does overact mean?

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Verb
  1. (acting) To act in an exaggerated manner.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To act upon, or influence, unduly.
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These poorly-articulated frog suits leave the actors inside with little choice but to overact and gesticulate.
Her lack of theater training shows because she is one of the few actors who doesn't overact.
Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix, two actors I don't like very much, perform convincingly and, more important, don't overact and chew the scenery.
Dahl's caricatures could eclipse a production when performed by a cast of skilled actors allowed to overact to their hearts' content, as is the case here.
The director Margot Bordelon and her designers manage shifts in time lucidly, though she sometimes allows the engaging cast to overact.
However, the solutions are not simple, and we should not overact.

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