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OVERSTATE

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 I. (verb) 

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)

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