understate

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: un=der=state

CIDE DICTIONARY

understate, v. t. 

 To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

understate, v.tr.
1 express in greatly or unduly restrained terms.
2 represent as being less than it actually is.

Derivative

understatement n. understater n.

THESAURUS

understate

belie, burlesque, camouflage, caricature, color, disguise, distort, dress up, embellish, embroider, exaggerate, falsify, fudge, garble, gild, gloss, gloss over, mask, miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, misteach, overdraw, overstate, parody, pervert, slant, strain, titivate, travesty, trick out, twist, varnish, warp, whitewash, wrench