exaggerate
VerbUS[ig-zaj-er-eyt]/ɪɡˈzædʒɚˌeɪt/4 syllables
Open English WordNet
Verb (2)exaggerates, exaggerated, exaggerating
- to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth“tended to romanticize and exaggerate this ‘gracious Old South’ imagery”Synonyms: overstateoverdrawhyperbolizehyperbolisemagnifyamplifyMore general misinform, misleadMore specific boast, embroider, overemphasize
- do something to an excessive degree“He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups”Synonyms: overdoMore general make, doMore specific overleap, oversimplify, overpraise
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Translations
Verb to overstate, to describe more than is fact
- Spanish
- exagerar
- French
- exagérer
- German
- übertreiben
- Italian
- esagerare
- Portuguese
- exagerar
- Turkish
- abartmak
- Russian
- преувели́чивать preuvelíčivatʹ
- Arabic
- بَالَغَ bālaḡa
- Chinese
- 夸大 kuādà
- Japanese
- 誇張する kochō suru
20 more languages
- Dutch
- overdrijven
- Polish
- przesadzać
- Swedish
- överdriva
- Greek
- υπερβάλλω ypervállo
- Korean
- 과장하다 gwajang-hada
- Indonesian
- membesar-besarkan
- Hungarian
- túloz
- Portuguese (PT)
- exagerar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 誇大 kuādà
- Albanian
- ekzagjeroj
- Catalan
- exagerar
- Czech
- přehánět
- Danish
- overdrive
- Esperanto
- troigi
- Finnish
- liioitella
- Hebrew
- הגזים higzím
- Icelandic
- ýkja
- Norwegian
- overdrive
- Romanian
- exagera
- Yiddish
- מגזם זײַן megazem zayn
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ex·ag′ger·ate transitive verb [past tense & past participle Exaggerated; present participle & verbal noun Exaggerating. ]
Origin: L. exaggeratus, p. p. of exaggerare to heap up; ex out + aggerare to heap up, fr. agger heap, aggerere to bring to; ad to + gerere to bear. See Jest.
1. To heap up; to accumulate. obsolete “Earth exaggerated upon them [oaks and firs].” Sir Matt. Hale
2. To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; to delineate extravagantly; to overstate the truth concerning.
A friend exaggerates a man's virtues.— Joseph Addison
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54