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overemphasise

vb. (standard spelling of from=non-Oxford British spelling overemphasize English)

WordNet
overemphasise

v. place special or excessive emphasis on; "I cannot overemphasize the importance of this book" [syn: overemphasize, overstress]

Usage examples of "overemphasise".

Is he overemphasising the rigidity, he wonders, thinking of the clogs to clogs sagas of popular fiction which historians are taught to despise.