Pronunciations (4)
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/ˌəʊ.vəˈsteɪt/
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/ˌoʊ.vɚˈsteɪt/
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ˌəʊ.vəˈsteɪt
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ˌoʊ.vɚˈsteɪt
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- US
Verb
To state or claim too much.
Usage- Transitive
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To exaggerate; to state or claim to a greater degree than reality.
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I think it is overstating matters to say that an hour online is spending all night on the computer.
He was suggested not to overstate at the interview.
More examples (3)
In a closely reasoned article in The Guardian, Mr. D. L. Munby, Oxford University's Reader in the Economics and Organisation of Transport, has taken Dr. Beeching to task for overstating his case for withdrawing stopping train services as money-losers.
Career diplomat Conrad Tribble said on Twitter that multiculturalism “is one of our greatest strengths as a country, and I go to that well often as an American diplomat. It’s hard to overstate the global soft power impact of America’s cultural diversity.”
A Nobel prize-winning US biologist, who has been widely quoted describing a “smoking gun” to support the thesis that Covid-19 was genetically modified and escaped from a Wuhan lab, has said he overstated the case.
Verb
to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
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tended to romanticize and exaggerate this ‘gracious Old South’ imagery