0 present 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.
Perhaps that's hugely overestimating the influence that the media has on youth, or, at least, overstating the longevity of any influence it may hold.
This seems to me to be slightly overstating the case.
Research is needed to address this issue further to avoid overstating the negative impact of caring.
Nevertheless, there is a danger of overstating how much the individual differences approach can buy.
Also, if there are a number of public funds, there is potential for overstating the leverage of public funds.
Since the relationship is slightly concave, the errors introduced by understating persistence are smaller than those introduced by overstating persistence.
Thus, by overstating their costs of abatement in the survey the firms stand to gain little.
He suspected that the lawman was overstating his influence with the mayor, but thought it rude not to go along.
