Usually means: Minimizes the significance or extent.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. understates: Merriam-Webster
  2. understates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. understates: Vocabulary.com
  4. understates: Wordnik
  5. understates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. understates: Wiktionary
  7. understates: Dictionary.com
  8. understates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. understates: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. understates: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (understate)

verb:  (transitive) To state (something) with less completeness than needed; to minimise or downplay.
verb:  (transitive) To state (something) with a lack of emphasis, in order to express irony.
verb:  To state a quantity that is too low.
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