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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
overemphasize
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I think the book overemphasizes the importance of religion in the history of the US.
▪ The importance of car safety cannot be overemphasized.
▪ The importance of strict hygiene in the preparation of food cannot be overemphasized.
▪ The report overemphasizes the role of the teacher. Children also learn from their parents and from each other.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It is hard to overemphasize the importance of this point.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
overemphasize

overemphasize \overemphasize\, over-emphasize \over-emphasize\v. t. to emphasize excessively; to place excessive emphasis on.

Syn: overemphasize, emphasise, overstress.

Wiktionary
overemphasize

vb. To place too much emphasis on; to overstate the importance of.

WordNet
overemphasize

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

Usage examples of "overemphasize".

Vital significance of preeminent objective in European continent cannot be overemphasized.

He remarked that if dreaming is overemphasized, it becomes what it was for the old sorcerers: a source of inexhaustible indulging.

But every code excludes certain things, blurs other things, and overemphasizes still other things.

If the activity is already positive, carefully avoid overemphasizing the external rewards and/or making them unduely controlling, pressuring, or negative.

She was dressed in style, in a brown loose kind of half-sleeved something which showed her figure without overemphasizing it.

I said, overemphasizing each word, "you're all going to be helping at the fair, aren't you?

The vocal modulations sounded unnaturally harsh to his ears, and he hoped he was not overemphasizing the guttural nature of the mammalian speech.

Breaking from underspace into normal space was a complex opera­tion, sure, but the Captain was deliberately overemphasizing the danger.