Usually means: Express with deliberate mildness, restraint.
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  1. understate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. understate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. understate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. understate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. understate: Vocabulary.com
  6. understate: Wordnik
  7. understate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. understate: Wiktionary
  9. understate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. understate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. understate: Dictionary.com
  12. understate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Understate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Understate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. understate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. understate: Rhymezone
  17. understate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. understate: Free Dictionary
  19. understate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. understate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. understate: Infoplease Dictionary

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verb:  (transitive) To state (something) with less completeness than needed; to minimise or downplay.
verb:  (transitive) To state (something) with a lack of emphasis, in order to express irony.
verb:  To state a quantity that is too low.

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