0 present participle of overplay
1 to make something seem more important than it really is:
I think she's overplaying the significance of his remarks.
Another aspect of the communist strategy of seizing power involved the overplaying of the identity between their position as the outcast and the general state of the population.
She was highly pleased with the final fifteen minutes, noting that in those final moments, this series hit every note we could have wanted, without overplaying any of them.
They can use any given situation or feeling and produce a whole record without overplaying or showboating, they just get their point across and finish in silence.
The increasing number of advertisements, as well as overplaying of the same advertisement, are secondary annoyance factors.
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 when overplaying has taken place.
At the same time, we do no good to the cause of those who seek to get rid of the bad by overplaying the case against clubs as a whole.
A bank manager was overplaying his hand; he received a rude answer from me; eventually he lost the account and lost a good many other people's accounts too.
There is nothing to be gained from overplaying the agreement but a great deal to be lost from underplaying it.
