0 past simple and past participle of overstate
1 to describe or explain something in a way that makes it seem more important or serious than it really is:
The impact of the new legislation has been greatly overstated.
The shareholders seem to think that the executive board is overstating the case for a merger.
This is repetitive and, as a result, somewhat overstated.
Nonetheless, two factors indicate that these advantages can be overstated.
The interviewer's role in continuously monitoring the success of the communication process cannot be overstated, and it requires both skill and sensitivity.
The significance of investigating the interactional employment of adverbials in situ and within naturally occurring interaction cannot be overstated.
The importance of careful pronunciation cannot be overstated, yet in many performances it is completely overlooked or ignored.
Moreover, while marking mechanical errors can be frustrating, the view that there is no direct connection between correction and learning is greatly overstated.
This tactic, of course, provided the groundwork for wildly overstated claims about the epistemological adequacy of scientific methods.
So apart from the utilitarian and aesthetic aspects of wood, its symbolic significance as representing brahman cannot be overstated.
