| NOUN | communication | overstatement, exaggeration, magnification | making to seem more important than it really is |
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| Sounds | ow'verstey.tmahnt | |
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| Rhymes | abandonment ... wonderment: 671 rhymes with ahnt... | |
| Meaning | making to seem more important than it really is. | |
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| Synonyms | exaggeration, magnification | |
| Broader | misrepresentation, deceit, deception | A misleading falsehood |
| Opposite | understatement | A statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said |
| Spanish | exageración, hipérbole | |
| Catalan | exageració | |
| Verbs | overstate | to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth |
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