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understatement


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Understatement  \Un"der*state`ment\,  n. 
  The  act  of  understating,  or  the  condition  of  being 
  understated;  that  which  is  understated;  a  statement  below  the 
  truth. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  understatement 
  n  :  a  statement  that  is  restrained  in  ironic  contrast  to  what 
  might  have  been  said  [ant:  {exaggeration}] 




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