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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overplay .
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Examples
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Why "Jephtha," Handel's last oratorio, isn't outrageously overplayed is one of those weird mysteries of life.
Spend some time and rock a rhyme / I said, It's not that easy Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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Because then we can go down that path and I can bring up examples of other people widely regarded as leaders of the party who do not hold official titles overplayed example: Rush Limbaugh.
digg.com: Top News 2010
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** perhaps if i was old enough to remember clearly what the radio waves sounded like when this song was popular, i might feel differently. i imagine it was heavily overplayed, which is a horrible way to treat an 8 minute song.
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this looks bad. i for one am somewhat tired of this kind of humor, or at least the way it is presented aka the overplayed acting.
Must Watch: Full Trailer for Jim Carrey's Hilarious Yes Man « FirstShowing.net 2008
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O I think global warming is undoubtedly real and a serious problem, but I think it has been 'overplayed' by the press, politicians and some organisations.
Archive 2009-10-01 EliRabett 2009
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O I think global warming is undoubtedly real and a serious problem, but I think it has been 'overplayed' by the press, politicians and some organisations.such as
Archive 2009-10-01 EliRabett 2009
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O I think global warming is undoubtedly real and a serious problem, but I think it has been 'overplayed' by the press, politicians and some organisations.such as
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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O I think global warming is undoubtedly real and a serious problem, but I think it has been 'overplayed' by the press, politicians and some organisations.
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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Earlier on Monday, Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister Aziz Pahad described as "overplayed" threats by Nigerians to retaliate against
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STENGEL: Yes, I do think we have kind of overplayed the argument that his voters won't vote for her, her voters won't vote for him.
Related Words
synonyms (35)
Words with the same meaning
- actor-proof
- all-star
- ballet
- balletic
- cinematic
- cinematographic
- dramatic
- dramatical
- dramaturgic
- film
- filmic
- ham
- hammy
- histrionic
- legitimate
- melodramatic
- milked
- monodramatic
- movie
- operatic
- overacted
- scenic
- spectacular
- stagelike
- stageworthy
- stagy
- starstruck
- stellar
- theaterlike
- theatrical
- thespian
- thrown away
- underacted
- underplayed
- vaudevillian
rhymes (121)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Blade
- Cade
- Crusade
- Dade
- Jade
- Kincaid
- Slade
- Wade
- ade
- afraid
- aid
- aide
- allayed
- arcade
- arrayed
- bade
- bayed
- betrayed
- blade
- blockade
- braid
- brigade
- brocade
- buffeted
- cade
- cascade
- charade
- cliched
- colonnade
- conveyed
- crocheted
- crusade
- dade
- decade
- decayed
- degrade
- delayed
- dismayed
- disobeyed
- displayed
- dissuade
- downgrade
- evade
- fade
- fayed
- filleted
- flayed
- forbade
- frayed
- gade
- glade
- grade
- granade
- grenade
- hade
- handmade
- home-made
- homemade
- invade
- jade
- kade
- lade
- laid
- lemonade
- made
- maid
- manmade
- masquerade
- mayde
- mislaid
- obeyed
- okayed
- outweighed
- overpaid
- overstayed
- paid
- palisade
- parade
- persuade
- pervade
- played
- portrayed
- prayed
- prepaid
- preyed
- promenade
- purveyed
- quade
- quaid
- raid
- rayed
- remade
- repaid
- replayed
- sauteed
- schade
- serenade
- shade
- slade
- spade
- spaid
- sprayed
- stade
- staid
- stayed
- strayed
- suede
- surveyed
- swayed
- tirade
- trade
- unafraid
- underpaid
- underplayed
- unmade
- unpaid
- unswayed
- upgrade
- wade
- waid
- weighed
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