overplaying
present participle ofoverplay
overplay
verb[T]
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈpleɪ/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈpleɪ/to make somethingseemmoreimportantthan it really is:
Ithinkshe's overplaying thesignificanceof hisremarks.
Exaggerating & playing down
- bloviate
- blowsomethingout of proportionidiom
- cartoonish
- catastrophize
- dramatization
- dramatize
- exaggerate
- OTT
- over-egg
- overboard
- overdramatic
- overdramatize
- overembellish
- overplay
- overstatement
- pile
- proportion
- protest too muchidiom
- stretch the truthidiom
- understate
Idiom
overplayyourhand
Examplesofoverplaying
overplaying
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
But we are in danger ofoverplayingour hand.
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Does he mean try a bit ofoverplayingmy hand or try a bit of farming?
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He spent a long time todayoverplayinghis hand.
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I can give another small but sad example of the risk of thisoverplaying.
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Nor will he succeed byoverplayinghis hand.
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Surely his own experience leads him to know that the use of the word "all" was somewhatoverplayinghis case.
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He isoverplayingthe card of subsidence deterring developers coming into former mining areas.
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There is nothing to be gained fromoverplayingthe agreement but a great deal to be lost from underplaying it.
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A bank manager wasoverplayinghis hand; he received a rude answer from me; eventually he lost the account and lost a good many other people's accounts too.
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At the same time, we do no good to the cause of those who seek to get rid of the bad byoverplayingthe case against clubs as a whole.
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Care should be taken by the people responsible to see that the individuals for whom the playing fields are primarily obtained are the last sufferers whenoverplayinghas taken place.
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The increasing number of advertisements, as well asoverplayingof the same advertisement, are secondary annoyance factors.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They can use any given situation or feeling and produce a whole record withoutoverplayingor showboating, they just get their point across and finish in silence.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She was highly pleased with the final fifteen minutes, noting that in those final moments, this series hit every note we could have wanted, withoutoverplayingany of them.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Another aspect of the communist strategy of seizing power involved theoverplayingof the identity between their position as the outcast and the general state of the population.
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- look-to-for
- look-to-laurels
- look to sb for sth
- look-to-sb-for-sth
- look to sb to do sth
- look-to-sb-to-do-sth
- look to someone for something
- look to someone to do something
- look-to-to-do
- look to your laurels
- look-to-your-laurels
- look up
- look-up
- look-up-to
- look up to sb
- look-up-to-sb
- look up to someone
- look who's talking!
- look-who-s-talking
- loom
- loom bands
- loom-bands
- loomed
- looming
- looming crisis