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Understate   /ˈəndərstˌeɪt/   Listen
Understate

verb
1.
Represent as less significant or important.  Synonyms: downplay, minimise, minimize.



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"Understate" Quotes from Famous Books



... head-lights and turned the car down the dark drive. She was feeling thoroughly upset. Her idealistic nature had received a painful shock on the discovery of the yellow streak in Bream. To call it a yellow streak was to understate the facts. It was a great belt of saffron encircling his whole soul. That she, Wilhelmina Bennett, who had gone through the world seeking a Galahad, should finish her career as the wife of a man who hid under beds simply because people shot at him with elephant ...
— Three Men and a Maid • P. G. Wodehouse



Words linked to "Understate" :   inform, trivialise, overstate, trivialize



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