Usually means: Exaggeration beyond truth or reality.
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  1. overstatement: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. overstatement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overstatement: Collins English Dictionary
  4. overstatement: Vocabulary.com
  5. Overstatement, overstatement: Wordnik
  6. overstatement: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. overstatement: Wiktionary
  8. Overstatement, overstatement: Dictionary.com
  9. Overstatement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Overstatement: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. overstatement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. overstatement: Rhymezone
  13. Overstatement: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. overstatement: Free Dictionary
  15. overstatement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. overstatement: Dictionary/thesaurus
  17. overstatement: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. overstatement: Legal dictionary

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  1. overstatement: Encyclopedia

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noun:  An exaggeration; a statement in excess of what is reasonable.
noun:  The tendency to overstate.

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