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understatingverbpresent participle of understate to say that (something) is smaller, less important, etc., than it really isHe understated his taxable income. She's trying to understate the issue/problem. underplayingde-emphasizing, downplaying, playing down, soft-pedalingbad-mouthing, belittling, crying down, decrying, denigrating, deprecating, depreciating, derogating, dismissing, disparaging, kissing off, minimizing, poor-mouthing, putting down, running down, talking down, trashing, trash-talking exaggerating, overdoing, overdrawing, overstatingelaborating, embellishing, embroidering, magnifying, padding, stretchingfudging, hedgingmelodramatizing, overemphasizing, overplaying, sensationalizing |