Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to overplay
Participle: overplayed
Gerund: overplaying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | overplay |
| you | overplay |
| he;she;it | overplays |
| we | overplay |
| you | overplay |
| they | overplay |
Perfect
| I | have overplayed |
| you | have overplayed |
| he;she;it | has overplayed |
| we | have overplayed |
| you | have overplayed |
| they | have overplayed |
Past
| I | overplayed |
| you | overplayed |
| he;she;it | overplayed |
| we | overplayed |
| you | overplayed |
| they | overplayed |
Pluperfect
| I | had overplayed |
| you | had overplayed |
| he;she;it | had overplayed |
| we | had overplayed |
| you | had overplayed |
| they | had overplayed |
Future
| I | will overplay |
| you | will overplay |
| he;she;it | will overplay |
| we | will overplay |
| you | will overplay |
| they | will overplay |
Future Perfect
| I | will have overplayed |
| you | will have overplayed |
| he;she;it | will have overplayed |
| we | will have overplayed |
| you | will have overplayed |
| they | will have overplayed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | overplay |
| you | overplay |
| he;she;it | overplay |
| we | overplay |
| you | overplay |
| they | overplay |
Perfect
| I | have overplayed |
| you | have overplayed |
| he;she;it | have overplayed |
| we | have overplayed |
| you | have overplayed |
| they | have overplayed |
Imperfect
| I | overplayed |
| you | overplayed |
| he;she;it | overplayed |
| we | overplayed |
| you | overplayed |
| they | overplayed |
Pluperfect
| I | had overplayed |
| you | had overplayed |
| he;she;it | had overplayed |
| we | had overplayed |
| you | had overplayed |
| they | had overplayed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would overplay |
| you | would overplay |
| he;she;it | would overplay |
| we | would overplay |
| you | would overplay |
| they | would overplay |
Perfect
| I | would have overplayed |
| you | would have overplayed |
| he;she;it | would have overplayed |
| we | would have overplayed |
| you | would have overplayed |
| they | would have overplayed |
Imperative
| you | overplay |
| we | Let's overplay |
| you | overplay |
Verbs conjugated like 'overplay'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'overplay'
overlay,
overpay,
overplan,
overply,
overcloy,
overfly,
overlap,
overpad,
overplace,
overplant,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *úp
3. Proto-Indo-European *-er
4. Proto-Indo-European *upér
5. Proto-Germanic *uber
6. Old English ofer-
7. Middle English over-
8. English over-
9. English play
10. English overplay
11. From over- + play.
Sample Sentences
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When Chris overacted his part again, the director warned that anyone overplaying would be barred from the next production.
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Nevertheless, 3 Body Problem does well to pull us onward, as much through the relentless, but never overplayed, suffering and hardening of Ye Wenjie as she endures her effective imprisonment in the project grounds – and the stealing of her work by others – as by the present day mystery. [2024 March 21, Lucy Mangan, “3 Body Problem review – the creators of Game of Thrones have done it again”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
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A lot of times I don't want to overplay songs that I really like, because I know that then I'll get sick of them and I don't want to get sick of them. [2008, Walter Douglas Crigler, iMusic/myMusic, page 75:]
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Jack won the last match of blackjack; Theo overplayed.
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Some of San Francisco's life-long Democrats believe the trend is being overplayed, the work of a small number of influential figures with big megaphones. [2024 July 20, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, Hannah Murphy, Alex Rogers, “Has Silicon Valley gone Maga?”, in FT Weekend (Big Read section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:]
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The first few shots went wonderfully, but Robin overplayed the last and lost.