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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Overstate \O`ver*state"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Overstated}; p.
pr & vb n. {Overstating}.]
To state in too strong terms; to exaggerate. --Fuller.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
overstate
v : to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth: " tended to
romanticize and exaggerate this ``gracious Old South''
imagery." [syn: {exaggerate}, {overdraw}, {hyperbolize},
{magnify}, {amplify}] [ant: {understate}]
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