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Definition of Overact

Overact
Overact O`ver*act", v. t. 1. To act or perform to excess; to exaggerate in acting; as, he overacted his part. 2. To act upon, or influence, unduly. [Obs.] The hope of inheritance overacts them. --Milton.
Overact
Overact O`ver*act", v. i. To act more than is necessary; to go to excess in action. --B. Jonson.

Meaning of Overact from wikipedia

- Overacting (also called hamming, mugging or chewing the scenery) is exaggerated acting, positively or negatively. Some roles require overly-exaggerated...
- Overactive bladder (OAB) is a common condition where there is a frequent feeling of needing to urinate to a degree that it negatively affects a person's...
- This disposition is an attempt, at least in part, to better describe "overactive imagination" or "living in a dream world". An individual with this trait...
- (DSD) (the ICS standard terminology agreed 1998) and neurogenic detrusor overactivity (NDO)) is a consequence of a neurological pathology such as spinal injury...
- otherwise specified (PDD-NOS), childhood disintegrative disorder (CDD), overactive disorder ****ociated with mental ****ation and stereotyped movements...
- is structurally similar to thyroxine and may cause either under-or overactivity of the thyroid.[citation needed] Postpartum thyroiditis (PPT) occurs...
- and skin, hyperpigmentation of the skin (lentiginosis), and endocrine overactivity. It is distinct from Carney's triad. Approximately 7% of all cardiac...
- improper regulation of the basal ganglia–thalamocortical circuitry. Overactivity of a direct pathway combined with decreased activity of indirect pathway...
- Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination is Helen Fielding's fifth book, a spy novel published in 2003. It chronicles the adventures of Olivia Joules...
- Overactive let-down (OALD) is the forceful ejection of milk from the breast during breastfeeding. In some women it occurs only with the first let-down...