overstate

Etymology

over- + state.

verb

1. To exaggerate; to state or claim too much.
   I think it is overstating matters to say that an hour online is spending all night on the computer.
   He was suggested not to overstate at the interview.
   In a closely reasoned article in The Guardian, Mr. D. L. Munby, Oxford University's Reader in the Economics and Organisation of Transport, has taken Dr. Beeching to task for overstating his case for withdrawing stopping train services as money-losers. 1963 July, “News and Comment: Dr. Beeching's overstatement”, in Modern Railways, page 3
   A Nobel prize-winning US biologist, who has been widely quoted describing a “smoking gun” to support the thesis that Covid-19 was genetically modified and escaped from a Wuhan lab, has said he overstated the case. 2021-06-09, Peter Beaumont, “Leading biologist dampens his ‘smoking gun’ Covid lab leak theory”, in The Guardian, →ISSN