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Meanings of overstate in English
To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth.
Synonyms
Examples for "exaggerate"
Examples for "exaggerate"
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Rose may exaggerate to make his point, but the problem is clear.
2
Thus, these c-fos results demonstrate how experience may further exaggerate individual differences.
3
The rather unreliable vibe could exaggerate good news on the material front.
4
He did not in any way exaggerate the condition of the bridge.
5
In letters to FASB, banks complained that the change would exaggerate risks.
1
Yamaguchi explains: We believe that technology has the power to amplify kindness.
2
Therefore, persistent infection has the potential to amplify RV interference with research.
3
The destruction of the Emperor's space station will only amplify the violence.
4
She did not amplify and I did not ask any more questions.
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Then Sir Richmond saw fit to amplify his confessions in one particular.
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Leveraged and inverse ETFs use derivatives and debt to magnify market returns.
2
In any political party, success conceals internal divisions while setbacks magnify them.
3
Global warming and changing rainfall patterns are likely to magnify those concerns.
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Politicians magnify this dispute in Parliament, hoping to score cheap political points.
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The third agency which needs to magnify the Bible is the school.
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What would happen if you should overdraw your bank account?
2
Oh yes, if you want it, though I think we shall have to overdraw.
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Nevertheless, Mr. Melmotte would not now have been allowed to overdraw at the present moment.
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But mind, if ever you overdraw the account stops.
5
These entertainments soon forced Dave to overdraw his allowance.
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How often he had heard poor sufferers hyperbolize their suffering!
2
The impacts of new technologies are unpredictable: Inventors hyperbolize a revolutionary technology when it emerges, but it's impossible for society to anticipate its long-term effects.
Usage of overstate in English
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But it's difficult to overstate how many problems exist in some communities.
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But Labour strategists believe the polls overstate the extent of its lead.
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Detchon said the chamber's estimates overstate the potential burden on U.S. consumers.
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It's impossible to overstate the effectiveness of Rae Smith's gorgeous design work.
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Mr Mills said he could not overstate the seriousness of these matters.
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You didn't overstate the fact in your brag about the political graves.
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The 62-year-old general's importance to the Iranian regime is hard to overstate.
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Yet it would be easy to overstate the lawlessness of the Panhandle.
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The scale of what Grove has suggested would be difficult to overstate.
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It would be impossible to overstate the mounting pathos of these works.
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His influence over the party's modernisation project would be difficult to overstate.
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The level of sharpness on the IPS screen is hard to overstate.
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It is hard to overstate how heroic the Mainstream's rise has been.
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It would be hard to overstate the abstract beauty of many treasures.
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I noticed that he did not overstate anything, but spoke within bounds.
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It's almost impossible to overstate just how much Clinton hates the press.
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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