overplayed

1. 1
   adjective

   Heard or shown so many times that people are tired of it.

   Like a joke that stops being funny after you hear it too many times.

   That song got so overplayed last summer that I switched the station every time it came on.

   Radio stations turned a great single into an overplayed cliché within a few weeks.

   Similaroverused, tired, stale, hackneyed, overdone

   Oppositefresh

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2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of overplay. Use it for the past, or after has, have, had, is, was or were.

   He overplayed his hand and lost the whole deal.

   The actor overplayed the sad scene until it felt fake.

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