0 to give something too much importance or attention:
While one should not overemphasize the power of outsiders, the threat of environmental legislation also made the electricity establishment more politically vulnerable than telecom.
But he stretches the point by overemphasizing continuity and homogeneity at the expense of diversity and change.
It cannot be overemphasized that taken on its own, it is an ambiguous characterization.
The institutional issue should also not be overemphasized for a second reason.
Previous studies seem to have overemphasized the point that ultramafic complexes in the region are aligned along regional shear zones.
But this can also result from a tendency to overemphasize downbeats so that momentum ebbs.
The importance of the funerary architecture has been overemphasized, and little interpretation has been made of the social meaning of the objects themselves.
Indeed, we cannot overemphasize the striking similarities between persons with mental disorders and their nondisordered counterparts.
