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OVERSTATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they overstate ... he / she / it overstates
Past simple: overstated
Past participle: overstated
-ing form: overstating
Sense 1
Meaning:
To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
Example:
tended to romanticize and exaggerate this 'gracious Old South' imagery
Synonyms:
amplify; exaggerate; hyperbolise; hyperbolize; magnify; overdraw; overstate
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
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)
