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overstate
Overview of verb overstate
The verb overstate has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify -- (to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery")
Grep of noun overstate
overstatement
Antonyms of verb overstate
1 sense of overstate
Sense 1
overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify
Antonym of understate (Sense 1)
=>understate, minimize, minimise, downplay
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb overstate
1 sense of overstate
Sense 1
overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify
=> misinform, mislead
=> inform
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb overstate
1 sense of overstate
Sense 1
overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify
=> overemphasize, overemphasise, overstress
=> boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade
=> embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb overstate
1 sense of overstate
Sense 1
overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify
=> misinform, mislead
'Cause To' of verb overstate
Derived Forms of verb overstate
1 sense of overstate
Sense 1
overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify
RELATED TO>(noun) overstatement#1
=> exaggeration, overstatement, magnification
Domain of verb overstate
Domain Terms of verb overstate
Familiarity of verb overstate
overstate used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb overstate
1 sense of overstate
Sense 1
overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify
*> Somebody ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb overstate
1 sense of overstate
Sense 1
overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify
> misinform, mislead
=> lie
=> beat around the bush, equivocate, tergiversate, prevaricate, palter
=> overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify
=> sandbag
=> deceive, betray, lead astray
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb overstate
Sense 1
overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify
=> misinform, mislead
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Grep of verb overstate
overstate
Grep of adj overstate
overstated
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