overstating
present participle ofoverstate
| 单词 | overstating |
| 释义 | overstating present participle ofoverstate overstate verb[T] uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈsteɪt/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈsteɪt/todescribeorexplainsomething in a way that makes itseemmoreimportantorseriousthan it really is: Theimpactof the newlegislationhas beengreatlyoverstated. Theshareholdersseemtothinkthat theexecutiveboardis overstating thecasefor amerger. Synonym exaggerate Opposites downplay minimize understate Exaggerating & playing down
Examplesofoverstatingoverstating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Perhaps that's hugely overestimating the influence that the media has on youth, or, at least,overstatingthe longevity of any influence it may hold. From theCambridge English Corpus This seems to me to be slightlyoverstatingthe case. From theCambridge English Corpus Research is needed to address this issue further to avoidoverstatingthe negative impact of caring. From theCambridge English Corpus Nevertheless, there is a danger ofoverstatinghow much the individual differences approach can buy. From theCambridge English Corpus Also, if there are a number of public funds, there is potential foroverstatingthe leverage of public funds. From theCambridge English Corpus Since the relationship is slightly concave, the errors introduced by understating persistence are smaller than those introduced byoverstatingpersistence. From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, byoverstatingtheir costs of abatement in the survey the firms stand to gain little. From theCambridge English Corpus He suspected that the lawman wasoverstatinghis influence with the mayor, but thought it rude not to go along. From theCambridge English Corpus Byoverstatingthe total costs of projects, these seemingly modest requests could defray a substantial portion of actual costs. From theCambridge English Corpus As a result, economists who use the 'old' hedonic price function to value the improvement may beoverstatinglong-run benefits associated with the uniform improvements. From theCambridge English Corpus This isoverstatingthe case for hospices in a way which could be counterproductive. From theCambridge English Corpus We tried hard to avoid the traps of taking ourselves to be representative of, oroverstatingthe homogeneity of, either discipline. From theCambridge English Corpus Interestingly, these variations virtually prevent us fromoverstatingthe policy effects in the north and understating them in the south. From theCambridge English Corpus Unfortunately,overstatingof the case is apparent here too. From theCambridge English Corpus These data suffer from the widely recognized phenomenon ofoverstatingactual turnout. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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