exaggerate

Speech parts

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

Synonyms

amplify magnify overstate overdo overdraw hyperbolize ham color gilt fudge vamp whitewash dramatize colour expand
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Antonyms

lower oath minify reduce decrease minimize
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Hypernyms

make mislead do misinform

Hyponyms

gas swash dramatize blow pad boast

Phrases with the word

exaggerate the worth of exaggerate the merits of grossly exaggerate to exaggerate exaggerate information

Derivatives

exaggerated exaggerating

Examples

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

Close letter words and terms

exaflop EXAFS exaggerable exaggerate information exaggerate the merits of exaggerate the worth of