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overstate

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"Stretch facts"

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˌəʊ.vəˈsteɪt/Part of speech verbSorted aeeorsttvStarts with OEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

Word origin

From over- + state.

Used in a sentence

  • I think it is overstating matters to say that an hour online is spending all night on the computer.
  • He was suggested not to overstate at the interview.
  • A Nobel prize-winning US biologist, who has been widely quoted describing a “smoking gun” to support the thesis that Covid-19 was genetically modified and escaped from a Wuhan lab, has said he overstated the case.

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