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understateverb [ T ]

uk ​ /ˌʌn.dəˈsteɪt/ us ​ /ˌʌn.dɚˈsteɪt/

› to describe something in a way that makes it seem less important, serious, bad, etc. than it really is

對…輕描淡寫；不如實陳述；避重就輕地說
She believes the research understates the amount of discrimination women suffer. 她認爲該研究對婦女所遭受的歧視輕描淡寫。

(Translation of “understate” from the Cambridge English-Chinese (Traditional) Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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