Overact

  • 81fake — Synonyms and related words: act, act a part, act like, actor, ad lib, adulterate, affect, affected, affecter, agent, alike, alter, alternate, alternative, analogy, aped, apocryphal, artificial, assume, assumed, backup, bastard, blagueur, bluff,… …

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  • 82feign — Synonyms and related words: act, act a part, affect, assume, bluff, counterfeit, cover up, dissemble, dissimulate, do a bit, dramatize, fake, four flush, gammon, histrionize, let on, let on like, make a pretense, make as if, make believe, make… …

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  • 83go overboard — Synonyms and related words: carry too far, exaggerate, exhaust, go to extremes, go too far, know no bounds, overact, overcarry, overdevelop, overdo, overdrive, overelaborate, overemphasize, overexercise, overexert, overexpend, overindulge,… …

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  • 84go to extremes — Synonyms and related words: aggrandize, amplify, ballyhoo, build up, burlesque, caricature, carry too far, draw the longbow, exaggerate, exhaust, go overboard, go too far, hyperbolize, know no bounds, lay it on, magnify, make much of, overact,… …

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  • 85go too far — Synonyms and related words: advance upon, ask for it, be rash, be reckless, break bounds, carry too far, catch at straws, encroach, exaggerate, exhaust, go overboard, go to extremes, infringe, intrude, invade, irrupt, know no bounds, make an… …

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  • 86grimace — Synonyms and related words: ache, agonize, ail, anguish, blanch, blench, bob, bobble, bounce, bump, contort, declaim, deform, didder, disapprove of, distort, dither, face, falter, feel pain, feel the pangs, frown, gloom, glower, ham, ham it up,… …

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  • 87ham — Synonyms and related words: ARRL, acting, actor proof, all star, amateur radio operator, ankle, bacon, ballet, balletic, bayonet legs, be theatrical, bowlegs, buffoonery, business, butt, calf, characterization, chitterlings, cinematic,… …

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  • 88know no bounds — Synonyms and related words: advance upon, break bounds, carry too far, encroach, exaggerate, exhaust, fill, flood, go overboard, go to extremes, go too far, infringe, intrude, invade, irrupt, luxuriate, make an inroad, overabound, overact,… …

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  • 89lay it on thick — Synonyms and related words: Barnumize, act a part, affect, aggrandize, amplify, assume, ballyhoo, bedaub, besmear, blarney, blow, blow off, blowhard, bombast, build up, burlesque, butter, butter up, caricature, carry too far, coat, counterfeit,… …

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  • 90make a show of — Synonyms and related words: act, act a part, affect, assume, betoken, bluff, brandish, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, counterfeit, cover up, cut a dash, cut a figure, cut a swath, dangle, dazzle …

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