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Meaning of OVEREMPHASIS

Pronunciation:  `owvur'emfusis

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 Definition: [n]  too much emphasis
 
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 See Also: emphasis, vehemence

 

 

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 Related Terms: aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up, burlesque, caricature, dilatation, dilation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, extravagance, extreme, grandiloquence, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflation, inordinacy, magnification, overcarrying, overdoing, overestimation, overexercise, overexertion, overexpenditure, overimportance, overkill, overreaching, overreaction, overstatement, overstrain, overtaxing, overuse, overwork, prodigality, profuseness, puffery, puffing up, sensationalism, strain, stretching, supererogation, superlative, tall talk, tax, touting, travesty
 

 

 

 

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