Local English word record

overstate

verb · 1 sense

to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

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Examples

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

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Synonyms

exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify

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