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 shareholders seem to think that the executive board is overstating the case for a merger.
The impact of the new legislation has been greatly overstated.
The importance of this interface in cancer care cannot be overstated.
Nevertheless, the extent to which support for democratic principles has declined should not be overstated.
The value of genetic resources and the need to conserve biodiversity cannot be overstated.
Percentage of value overstated ignore star t-up only!
However, the simplicity of its mechanisms for dialogue coordination may be overstated and the hypothesized direct priming channel between interlocutors' situation models is questionable.
The importance of linking the drug regime with pragmatic goals can hardly be overstated; every drug prescription must in some sense be a rehabilitation intervention.
This infusion of federal assistance to state systems of crime control was the first of its kind and the change it wrought cannot be overstated.
So apart from the utilitarian and aesthetic aspects of wood, its symbolic significance as representing brahman cannot be overstated.
