MEANING
To assert more certainty, scope, or success than the evidence or entitlement supports.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- overclaim the benefits
- avoid overclaiming
On the page
The authors were careful not to overclaim the intervention's benefits.
Word forms
- Base
- overclaim
- Past tense
- overclaimed
- Past participle
- overclaimed
- Present participle
- overclaiming
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- overclaim
- Present continuous
- am/is/are overclaiming
- Present perfect
- have/has overclaimed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been overclaiming
- Past
- overclaimed
- Past continuous
- was/were overclaiming
- Past perfect
- had overclaimed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been overclaiming
- Future
- will overclaim
- Future continuous
- will be overclaiming
- Future perfect
- will have overclaimed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been overclaiming
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: analysis / argumentation / evidence. Forms: overclaim; overclaims; overclaimed; overclaimed; overclaiming Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: overclaims.
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