overplay
verb/ˌəʊvəˈpleɪ/
/ˌəʊvərˈpleɪ/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they overplay | /ˌəʊvəˈpleɪ/ /ˌəʊvərˈpleɪ/ |
| he / she / it overplays | /ˌəʊvəˈpleɪz/ /ˌəʊvərˈpleɪz/ |
| past simple overplayed | /ˌəʊvəˈpleɪd/ /ˌəʊvərˈpleɪd/ |
| past participle overplayed | /ˌəʊvəˈpleɪd/ /ˌəʊvərˈpleɪd/ |
| -ing form overplaying | /ˌəʊvəˈpleɪɪŋ/ /ˌəʊvərˈpleɪɪŋ/ |
- overplay something to give too much importance to something
- His role in the negotiations has been overplayed.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryOverplay is used with these nouns as the object:- hand
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Idioms
See overplay in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryoverplay your hand
- to fail to achieve success by judging your position to be stronger than it really isTopics Difficulty and failurec2
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