0 past simple and past participle of overplay
1 to make something seem more important than it really is:
I think she's overplaying the significance of his remarks.
Because of inadequate analysis, clinicians and health service managers may previously have overplayed the effect of influenza on excess hospital admissions.
Legalization can, however, be overplayed.
Neurath's focus on the need for a unified language is overplayed in both the case of science and more generally for social coordination.
Although these trends are of interest, they should not be overplayed : since the prompts expressed the verbs, the rules of ellipsis legitimate verb omission should the speaker wish this.
However, this danger may be overplayed.
Will he accept, also, that this is a factor that could easily be overplayed compared with downtown schools, and particularly downtown comprehensive schools?
These words "communication and consultation" have been overplayed.
These difficulties of identification have been grossly overplayed in this debate.
