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exaggerate

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1. exaggerate - Adjective

2. exaggerate - Verb

Meaning

To heap up; to accumulate.

To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I don't even have to exaggerate. Will Rogers

Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed. Anthony Trollope

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than by a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact. Aldo Leopold

Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience. Sathya Sai Baba

It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. Lydia Maria Child

Love and hate always exaggerate. Hebrew Proverb

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