overemphasizes in English

verb

1

place excessive emphasis on.

the importance of adequate preparation cannot be overemphasized

synonyms: place/lay too much emphasis on, overstress, place/lay too much stress on, exaggerate, make too much of, overplay, overdo, overdramatize, make a big thing about/of, blow up out of all proportion

verb

• place/lay too much emphasis on, overstress, place/lay too much stress on, exaggerate, make too much of, overplay, overdo, overdramatize, make a big thing about/of, blow up out of all proportion
• overstress, overemphasise

Use "overemphasizes" in a sentence

1. I think the book overemphasizes the importance of religion in the history of the US.

2. 18 Democrats will complain he overemphasizes punishment at the expense of prevention and treatment.

3. The report overemphasizes the role of the teacher. Children also learn from their parents and from each other.

4. He becomes critical of the omissions of others and overemphasizes their failures toward him, sometimes attributing bad motives.

5. According to Bax, this captures the nature of human subjectivity better than the way Cartesianism does, since W's account gives a more balanced treatment of the relation between inner and outer, or self and other, than the Cartesian one-sided treatment, which overemphasizes only one aspect of the human subject, namely, the mental aspect (the mind).