Associations to the word «Overstate»

Wiktionary

OVERSTATE, verb. To exaggerate; to state or claim too much.

Dictionary definition

OVERSTATE, verb. To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope