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overstate, v.|ˌəʊvəˈsteɪt|
[f. over- 27, 26 + state n. and v.]
†1. to over-state it: to assume too great ‘state’ or stateliness; to play the grandee to excess. Obs.
1639Fuller Holy War iv. xix. (1647) 202 Or else that they should over-state it, turn Tyrants, and only exchange their slavery by becoming vassals to their own passions.
2. trans. To state too strongly; to exceed the limits of fact in stating; to exaggerate.
1803W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. I. 397/2 If Sir Francis Burdett has overstated the misgovernment of a prison, appropriated for the seditious, he [etc.]. 1837Syd. Smith Let. Archd. Singleton Wks. 1859 II. 279/2, I hate to overstate my case. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets x. 324 To say that the Greeks had no conceits, is perhaps overstated. |