Overpay vs Overplay - What's the difference?
overpay | overplay |
and To overdo or overact one's effect or role.
To present something in a manner more dramatic than necessary.
To overestimate one's strength in a game or event, which ultimately may end in a defeat.
(golf) To accidentally hit (one's golf ball) beyond "the green".
As verbs the difference between overpay and overplay
is that overpay is to pay too much while overplay is and to overdo or overact one's effect or role.overplay
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Verb
- When Chris overacted''' his part again, the director warned that anyone ' overplaying would be barred from the next production
- Although the play was wonderful, Joshua overplayed his role as the Beast.
- Jack won the last match of blackjack; Theo overplayed .
- The first few shots went wonderfully, but Robin overplayed the last and lost.
