Crossword-Solution: OVERSTATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overstate | v. t. | To state in too strong terms; to exaggerate. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “OVERSTATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| E.g. protest too much | 1 answer |
| tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery | 1 answer |
| state too strongly | 1 answer |
| Make too good a case | 1 answer |
| Declare in too strong terms. | 1 answer |
| Blow out of proportion | 1 answer |
| Be too generous with | 1 answer |
| Fudge, say | 2 answers |
| to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | 2 answers |
| Hyperbolize | 2 answers |
| overemphasise | 4 answers |
| Lay on thick | 4 answers |
| Overstress | 6 answers |
| MAKE mountain out of molehill | 18 answers |
| Embroider | 26 answers |
| dramatise | 32 answers |
| Overplay | 34 answers |
| Inflate | 39 answers |
| Blow up. | 49 answers |
| Distort | 49 answers |
| Magnify | 49 answers |
| Fudge | 53 answers |
| Falsify | 55 answers |
| overdo | 59 answers |
| Exaggerate | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with OVERSTATE (5)
Official data may overstate hardships, because many Russians supplement their income by moonlighting or by bartering goods and services, activities that often go unreported.
The Standard Dictionary wrongly describes it is “the highest peak (14,363 feet) within the United States.” The United States Baedeker and railroad literature overstate its altitude by more than a hundred feet.
But he interrupted her ere she had gone far, “Mademoiselle de La Vauvraye,” said he, “you overstate the matter.” His tone was chilling almost; and she felt as she had been rebuked.
Hence the tendency in these productions, and in medical lectures generally, to overstate the efficacy of favorite methods of cure, and hence the premium offered for showy talkers rather than sagacious observers, for the men of adjectives rather than of nouns substantive in the more ambitious of these institutions.
But I believe I very much understate both the height of some of these masses, and overstate the amount which these animals can form in the course of a year; so that you might very safely double the period as the time during which the Pacific Ocean, the general state of the climate, and the sea, and the temperature has been substantially what it is now; and yet that state of things which now obtains in the Pacific Ocean is the yesterday of the history of the life of the globe.
Quotes with OVERSTATE (3)
Mainly, though, the Democratic Party has become the party of reaction. In reaction to a war that is ill conceived, we appear suspicious of all military action. In reaction to those who proclaim the market can cure all ills, we resist efforts to use market principles to tackle pressing problems. In reaction to religious overreach, we equate tolerance with secularism, and forfeit the moral language that would help infuse our policies with a larger meaning. We lose elections and…
It is difficult to overstate the importance of understanding mirror neurons and their function. They may well be central to social learning, imitation, and the cultural transmission of skills and attitudes — perhaps even of the pressed-together sound clusters we call words. By hyperdeveloping the mirror-neuron system, evolution in effect turned culture into the new genome. Armed with culture, humans could adapt to hostile new environments and figure out how to exploit formerl…
At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the 'harmony of Genesis and Geology.' Like all hypocrites, these men overstate the case to such a degree, and so turn and pervert facts and words that they succeed only in gaining the applause of other hypocrites like themselves. Among the great sci…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1955–2022).