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All understate antonyms

un·der·state
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verb understate

  • highlighted — to emphasize or make prominent.
  • caricaturing — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
  • highlighting — to emphasize or make prominent.
  • weighted — having additional weight.
  • overdraw — to draw upon (an account, allowance, etc.) in excess of the balance standing to one's credit or at one's disposal: It was the first time he had ever overdrawn his account.
  • caricatured — Simple past tense and past participle of caricature.
  • weighting — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
  • lay it on thick — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • overdrawn — Past participle of overdraw.
  • misquote — a quotation that is incorrect.
  • misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
  • aggrandize — To aggrandize someone means to make them seem richer, more powerful, and more important than they really are. To aggrandize a building means to make it more impressive.
  • overemphasise — (British) alternative spelling of overemphasize.
  • make much of — great in quantity, measure, or degree: too much cake.
  • overemphasised — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasise.
  • headlining — a heading in a newspaper for any written material, sometimes for an illustration, to indicate subject matter, set in larger type than that of the copy and containing one or more words and lines and often several banks.
  • overemphasize — to emphasize excessively.
  • overemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasize.
  • overestimate — to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
  • exaggerate — Represent (something) as being larger, greater, better, or worse than it really is.
  • overestimated — Simple past tense and past participle of overestimate.
  • emphasise — (British) alternative spelling of emphasize.
  • emphasize — Give special importance or prominence to (something) in speaking or writing.
  • inflate — deflate
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