Definitionv. to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
Last update: August 21, 2015
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Newspapers overstate facts for business reasons. [Please select]
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Think you will now allow that I did not overstate my case when I [Please select]
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I saw the matter, and I assure thee it was overstated. [Please select]
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He did not attempt to overstate the case; but presented it with a blunt sincerity which made a powerfully realistic impression. [Please select]
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Getting "laughed plumb sick by the bystanders" (I borrowed his own not overstated expression) seemed to me a highly final finishing. [Please select]
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"Very likely, but it wouldn't be the first case where a man overstated the price of his purchase." [Please select]
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Yet knowing the bias that had been his he was careful to understate rather than to overstate his reasons. [Please select]
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It read at first like a boast--like one of those picturesque expressions with which the Eastern mind enjoys to overstate its case. [Please select]
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It is difficult to overstate the enormity of the ignorance which this popular statement implies. [Please select]
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It is impossible to overstate the vividness of these images, and yet I was so intent, all the time, upon him himself,who would not be intent on the tiger crouching to spring. [Please select]
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Passford, but I did not intend to question the truth of your reply to my question," said the commander, fearing that he had overstated his doubts." [Please select]
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