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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 truthplay

  Familiarity information: OVERSTATE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OVERSTATE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they overstate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it overstates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: overstated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: overstated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: overstating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


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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