exaggerate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin exaggeratus, past participle of exaggerare (“to heap up, increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, exaggerate”), from ex (“out, up”) + aggerare (“to heap up”), from agger (“a pile, heap, mound, dike, mole, pier, etc.”), from aggerere, adgerere (“to bring together”), from ad (“to”) + gerere (“to carry”).
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exaggerate (third-person singular simple present exaggerates, present participle exaggerating, simple past and past participle exaggerated)
- To overstate, to describe more than is fact.
- I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate!
- He said he'd slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he's exaggerating. The real number is about ten.
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Antonyms[edit]
- (overstate): downplay, understate
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Translations[edit]
to overstate, to describe more than is fact
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External links[edit]
- exaggerate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- exaggerate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- exaggerate at OneLook Dictionary Search
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Verb[edit]
exaggerāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of exaggerō
