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Definition of Overstates

Overstate
Overstate O`ver*state", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overstated; p. pr. & vb. n. Overstating.] To state in too strong terms; to exaggerate. --Fuller.

Meaning of Overstates from wikipedia

- Schopenhauer saw exaggeration as essential to journalism. He may have overstated this case, but yellow journalism thrived on exaggeration, and fact-checking...
- complex methods for misusing or misdirecting funds, overstating revenues, understating expenses, overstating the value of corporate ****ets, or underreporting...
- that bullet fragments could be matched to a box of ammunition, was so overstated that it was misleading under the rules of evidence. One year later, the...
- In 1993, Buckingham Palace called estimates of £100 million "grossly overstated". In 1971, Jock Colville, her former private secretary and a director...
- because the same conversion rate is used for all of Canada, this method overstates the GDP PPP of provinces and territories with high price levels, and understates...
- went on to say that "it is apparent that the recorded GDP growth rate overstates the sustainable growth rate. Broader measures of wellbeing and wealth...
- "the significance of the repeal of the two-thirds rule...is difficult to overstate. Not only did the power of the South in the Democratic party diminish...
- understated the level of child mortality that prevailed during 1985–1990 and overstated the level during 1991." According to this study, "there was no major rise...
- music. His lasting influence on modern guitar players is difficult to overstate; his techniques and delivery have been abundantly imitated by others....
- Devil with its supernatural themes, and Valley of the Dolls, with its overstated melodrama, have each achieved a degree of cult status. Tate's biographer...