Usually means: Exaggerate the extent or importance.
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  1. overstate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overstate: Merriam-Webster
  3. overstate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overstate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overstate: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. Overstate, overstate: Wordnik
  8. overstate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overstate: Wiktionary
  10. overstate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. overstate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  13. Overstate, overstate: Dictionary.com
  14. overstate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Overstate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. overstate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. overstate: Rhymezone
  18. Overstate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. overstate: FreeDictionary.org
  20. overstate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. overstate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. overstate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To exaggerate; to state or claim too much.

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exaggerate, magnify, overdraw, amplify, hyperbolize, overexaggerate, hyperexaggerate, overemphasize, exagerate, overclaim, more...

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exaggerate, magnify, overdraw, amplify, hyperbolize, overexaggerate, hyperexaggerate, overemphasize, exagerate, overclaim, more...

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    scarlet,     crimson,     vermilion,     ruby,     burgundy, more...



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