Usually means: Exaggerate the extent or importance.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. overstate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. overstate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overstate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overstate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overstate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Overstate, overstate: Wordnik
  7. overstate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overstate: Wiktionary
  9. overstate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overstate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. overstate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Overstate, overstate: Dictionary.com
  13. overstate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Overstate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. overstate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. overstate: Rhymezone
  17. Overstate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. overstate: Free Dictionary
  19. overstate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. overstate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. overstate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. overstate: Legal dictionary

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  1. overstate: Encyclopedia

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verb:  (transitive) To exaggerate; to state or claim too much.

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