understate
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understate (third-person singular simple present understates, present participle understating, simple past and past participle understated) (transitive and intransitive)
- to state something with less completeness than needed; to minimise or downplay.
- to state something with a lack of emphasis, in order to express irony.
- to state a quantity that is too low.
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to state something with less completeness than needed
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to state something with a lack of emphasis, in order to express irony
to state a quantity that is too low
