understate

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Academic vocabulary

Word FrequencyCommon

Regularly used in writing and speech

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verb

1. To state (something) with less completeness than needed; to minimise or downplay.

2. To state (something) with a lack of emphasis, in order to express irony.

3. To state a quantity that is too low.

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