0 present participle of understate --
1 to describe something in a way that makes it seem less important, serious, bad, etc. than it really is: --
She believes the research understates the amount of discrimination women suffer.
I was speaking from the latest available statistics and was understating rather than overstating the position.
Only one was due to understating the load, which was a consignment from abroad.
Our effort is not to be first with the news, but to be scrupulously accurate even at the risk of understating.
That also took place during the month and, therefore, the figure of £12 million is understating the real improvement.
Maghen may be understating the role of bodily fluids and gases in causing the preclusion.
This leads to an understating of the importance of the trade for the economy as a whole.
Unfortunately, data are not available to check the consistency of this understating among older women.
Interestingly, these variations virtually prevent us from overstating the policy effects in the north and understating them in the south.
