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OVERSTATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does overstate mean?
• OVERSTATE (verb)
The verb OVERSTATE has 1 sense:
1. to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
Familiarity information: OVERSTATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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... he / she / it overstates Past simple: overstated
Past participle: overstated
-ing form: overstating
Sense 1
Meaning:
To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
amplify; exaggerate; hyperbolise; hyperbolize; magnify; overdraw; overstate
Context example:
tended to romanticize and exaggerate this 'gracious Old South' imagery
Hypernyms (to "overstate" is one way to...):
misinform; mislead (give false or misleading information to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "overstate"):
overemphasise; overemphasize; overstress (place special or excessive emphasis on)
blow; bluster; boast; brag; gas; gasconade; shoot a line; swash; tout; vaunt (show off)
aggrandise; aggrandize; blow up; dramatise; dramatize; embellish; embroider; lard; pad (add details to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
understate (represent as less significant or important)
Derivation:
overstatement (making to seem more important than it really is)
Context examples
The luck that this aspect delivers is impossible to overstate.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The clinical importance of HER2 cannot be overstated.
(ERBB2 Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
While the calculation was complicated, the result was unequivocal: previous estimates had overstated the total mass of Andromeda.
(No Winner in Milky Way-Andromeda Clash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
That could mean that global climate models may overstate the ability of terrestrial ecosystems to lessen the impacts of climate change.
(Clues found on how soils may respond to climate change, National Science Foundation)
It would be hard to overstate how glorious December will be for you, for it will sparkle in so many ways through its many facets.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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