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Definition of "overemphasise" [overemphasise]

  • Alternative spelling of overemphasize. (verb)

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Use "overemphasise" in a sentence
  • "Historians who either overemphasise content or skills at the expense of the other need to unite to save the subject going into further decline."
  • "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."
  • "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."