Synonyms for overstate
ˌoʊ vərˈsteɪtover·state

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1. overstateverb

   Antonyms:
   understate

2. overstateverb

   I think it is overstating matters to say that an hour online is spending all night on the computer.

   Antonyms:
   understate

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1. overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplifyverb

   to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

   "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"

   Synonyms:
   exaggerate, blow up, amplify, hyperbolise, enlarge, overdraw, expand, overdo, hyperbolize, inflate, magnify

   Antonyms:
   minimise, downplay, understate, minimize

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1. overstateverb

   Synonyms:
   exaggerate, overcharge

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1. overstateverb

   Synonyms:
   exaggerate

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1. List of paraphrases for "overstate":

   overestimate, exaggerate, overemphasize, over-emphasise, overemphasise, over-estimate, overdo

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1. Steve Vladeck:

   It's hard to overstate how significant this technical ruling is for state prisoners trying to argue that they haven't received the effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by The Sixth Amendment, it's usually difficult, if not impossible, to show that your lawyer was ineffective without introducing new evidence, since that ineffectiveness often turns on evidence that wasn't introduced.

2. Israel Finkelstein:

   It’s hard to overstate Megiddo’s cultural and economic importance in the late Bronze Age.

3. Rick Hasen:

   It is hard to overstate how dangerous Bannon's words and actions are, steve Bannon's creating an army of duped people who will go into positions helping to run elections with the false understanding that the 2020 election was stolen. Who knows what such people are capable of doing when in charge of running polling places or counting votes.

4. George Loewenstein:

   You can't overstate how debilitating $ 5 a gallon is, economists are always confused by how outsized a role gas prices play in people's economic thinking. It's because it's in their face all day long.

5. Jeremy Farrar:

   It is impossible to overstate the implications of this work in all Sir Gregory P. Winter daily lives -- biofuels, chemicals, environment, medicine and so much more e.g. treatment of cancer, arthritis, Crohn's, UC and infections -- there are patients with Ebola being treated today with antibody therapies, this has impacted so much of modern medicine.