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- verb UK Alternative spelling of
overemphasize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb place special or excessive emphasis on
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Examples
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I cannot overemphasise how much he loathed people who stuck to a party line and tried to tell me, you or especially him what we must think; how every kind of bureaucrat, archbishop, rabbi, ayatollah, commissar and inquisitor roused in him the urge to fight.
Christopher Hitchens: He died too young, with too much left to say | Nick Cohen 2011
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It's hard to overemphasise how thin the phone is - as thin as an iPod Touch which of course is an iPhone without all the, er, phone stuff.
Samsung Galaxy S II and HTC Incredible S smartphones – review 2011
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Historians who either overemphasise content or skills at the expense of the other need to unite to save the subject going into further decline.
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It is hard to overemphasise the galvanising effect of this man and his art, if that is what it is, on the introverted world of the bullfight.
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Don't overemphasise the outer elements of social life as your inner world needs just as much, if not more, nurturing.
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People tend to overemphasise the how-to and not focus enough on the outcome.
Delegate Effectively By Skipping The How-To Session | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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The term was taken from Matthew 5:24 and II Cor. 5:20, and the new name for the confessional presumably came in as part of the wrongheaded tendency of those days to overemphasise the positive aspects of the faith and downplay the negative aspects of our sinfulness and our souls' danger.
More inculturation and liturgical "updating", courtesy of the Asian bishops 2009
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It is impossible to overemphasise the critical importance of this period for my father.
Fathers & Sons Richard Madeley 2008
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But she is then free to overemphasise the narrative they've constructed of her.
You judge the new Tina Fey skit spoofing Sarah Palin. Ann Althouse 2008
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It is impossible to overemphasise the critical importance of this period for my father.
Fathers & Sons Richard Madeley 2008
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