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Meaning overstate meaning

What does overstate mean?

overstate

— verb (= exaggerate) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth tended to romanticize and exaggerate this 'gracious Old South' imagery

Synonyms overstate synonyms

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exaggerate magnify overdraw amplify overdo overact hyperbolize hyperbolise go too far exceed blow up talk big swell pour it on pompous pile it on pad overreact ostentatious misrepresent misquote make a mountain out of a molehill inflate hyperbole heighten flatter excessive enlarge chatter cap boast babble

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Language and thought Communication Say True

Exaggerate

Conjugation overstate conjugation

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overstate · verb

Examples overstate examples

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Movie subtitles

You always overstate things, Kahlenberge.
Withoutwishing in any senseto overstate the case orcause undue alarm,nevertheless, the fact remains.
Well, let's not overstate the matter here, Doctor.
I cannot overstate the inhumanity of their acts.
Dr Kelso is always saying. I'm gonna say this as carefully as possible, so I don't overstate it.
I can't overstate the sensitivity.
And I think it's really important that we don't overstate the case and that we admit that there are cracks and fissures in all of these corporate structures.
Counselor, don't overstate your case.
Or do I overstate?
I cannot overstate my supreme disappointment.
Well, sometimes when you're angry, you can overstate your case.
I must tell you it would be impossible for me to overstate the joy and happiness which each Englsih men I have met have expressed to me on hearing of your marriage.
This idea of using just ten symbols, the digits from one to nine, plus a symbol for zero to represent all numbers from one to infinity was first developed by Indian mathematicians around the 6th century and I can't overstate its importance.
Oh, and I hate to overstate the obvious, but uh. these people have seen my face, so you are going to take care of them, right?
Sir! Surely you overstate things.
Don't overstate.
Withoutwishing in any senseto overstate the case orcause undue alarm,nevertheless, the fact remains. Come on!
Let's not overstate the matter here.
Let's not overstate this.
This is military. Goes all the way to the top. I can't overstate the sensitivity.
Well, I don't want to overstate this, but my mom is the greatest woman that ever lived.
The tragedy of their loss cannot be overstate.
And I cannot overstate this: No soft cheeses of any kind.
They fell upon the unsuspecting crew with these sabres and cane knives. I cannot overstate.
I can't overstate the sensitivity. There was a rumored program out of the Cold War, a plan to create a supersoldier.
Oh, yeah! Well, I don't want to overstate this, but my mom is the greatest woman that ever lived.
Kids, I can't overstate how horrible it is to be the single guy at your own mother's second wedding.
Um, and I don't want to have to overstate the obvious here, but you are African-American.
How much did you overstate?
Look, I don't want to overstate this, but this omelet is easily the greatest thing I have ever done in the history of. ever.
I may have let my desire for revenge overstate his skills.
We can't overstate the toll this takes on our soldiers.
But let's not overstate its value.
You overstate your importance, Vulture.

News and current affairs

Despite some legitimate concerns about safety, it is hard to overstate the overwhelming benefits.
Yet it is difficult to overstate the magnitude of the gain since 1900: in that year, life expectancy worldwide was 32 years, compared to 69 now (and a projection of 76 years in 2050).
And while one shouldn't overstate the risks of sustained ultra-low rates to financial stability, it is also wrong to dismiss them entirely.
It's difficult to overstate what these findings mean for climate policy.
It is difficult to overstate what is now at stake for the Western allies, to say nothing of the interests of the people of Kosovo.
But it is easy to overstate the significance of this case, too.
Why are cable TV personalities so eager to overstate how quickly central banks change their view of the likely future?
Again, this would work to overstate the recorded current-account deficit.
Investors took Europe's leaders at their word, because politicians usually downplay rather than overstate a crisis.
Are accounting gimmicks being used to overstate the true value of foreign capital contributions?
It is difficult to overstate the dependence of modern economies on large-scale computer systems.
True, many skeptics argue that with reasonable low-cost prophylactic measures, large scale cyber-meltdowns are highly implausible, and that doom-mongers overstate the worst-case scenarios.
But official measures of GDP may grossly overstate growth in the economy as they don't capture the fact that business sentiment among small firms is abysmal and their output is still falling sharply.
Moreover, these numbers overstate the benefits.
But it is hard to overstate the outcome's importance to the rest of the world.
No one can overstate the families' unspeakable anguish from not knowing if their daughters have been raped, beaten, or trafficked out of Nigeria - or even if they are still alive.
But, while instantaneous mark-to-market accounting can overstate the expected losses during a panic, the current values are often an accounting and political fiction.
The cases are comical - or would be if they were not really happening in a country of 74 million people whose strategic importance is difficult to overstate.

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