Difference between Overstate and Exaggerate

What is the difference between Overstate and Exaggerate?

Overstate as a verb is to exaggerate; to state or claim too much. while Exaggerate as a verb is to overstate, to describe more than is fact.

Overstate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To exaggerate; to state or claim too much.

Exaggerate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To overstate, to describe more than is fact.

Example sentence: I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

We hope you now know whether to use Overstate or Exaggerate in your sentence.

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