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minimizes
Minimize is defined as to reduce, decrease or lessen to the smallest possible amount.
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lessens
(Archaic) To belittle; minimize; disparage
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undervalues
To assign too low a value to; underestimate.
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overstates (antonym)
To give an extravagant or magnified account of (facts, truth, etc.); exaggerate
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underestimates (related)
To set too low an estimate on or for
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decreases (related)
To become or cause to become less or smaller, as in number, amount, or intensity.
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Understates Sentence Examples

  • However looking at the full year understates the extent of the change throughout the year.

  • It shows that the Autobiography rather understates the amount of work done.

  • Even this, however, understates the case, seeing that a really inscrutable Unknowable would destroy all confidence in the order of nature and render all knowledge entirely precarious.

  • Because its meaning has to be imputed, we have tended to describe it in terms of prior technologies—which, in many cases, understates its potential by many orders of magnitude.

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