Found 3 hits - Term: exaggerate, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
exaggerate \exag"gerate\, v. t. imp. p. p. exaggerated;
p. pr. vb. n. exaggerating . 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. obs. "earth exaggerated upon
them oaks and firs." --sir m. hale.
1913 webster
2. to amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the
truth; to delineate extravagantly; to overstate the truth
concerning.
1913 webster
a friend exaggerates a man's virtues. --addison.
1913 webster
see also:
exaggerated exaggerating jest
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
exaggerate
v 1: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to
romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious old south'
imagery" syn: overstate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise,
magnify, amplify ant: understate
2: do something to an excessive degree; "he overdid it last
night when he did 100 push-ups" syn: overdo
see also:
overstate overdraw hyperbolize hyerbolise magnify amplify
understate overdo
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
149 moby thesaurus words for "exaggerate":
accelerate, aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, ballyhoo,
be untruthful, beef up, belie, blow up, build up, burlesque,
camouflage, caricature, carry too far, color, complicate,
concentrate, condense, consolidate, deceive, deepen, disguise,
distort, double, draw the longbow, embellish, enhance, equivocate,
exacerbate, exceed, exhaust, falsify, fib, fudge, garble,
go beyond, go overboard, go to extremes, go too far, heat up,
heighten, hop up, hot up, hyperbolize, idealize, intensify,
jazz up, key up, know no bounds, lay it on, lie, lie flatly,
magnify, make complex, make much of, miscolor, mislead, misquote,
misreport, misrepresent, misstate, misteach, overact, overappraise,
overassess, overcalculate, overcarry, overcharge, overcount,
overdevelop, overdo, overdraw, overdrive, overelaborate,
overemphasize, overesteem, overestimate, overexercise, overexert,
overexpend, overgo, overindulge, overjump, overlabor, overleap,
overmeasure, overpaint, overpass, overplay, overpraise, overprize,
overrate, overreach, overreact, overreact to, overreckon, overrun,
oversell, overshoot, overshoot the field, overshoot the mark,
overspeak, overspend, overstate, overstep, overstrain, overstress,
overstride, overstudy, overtask, overtax, overtrain, overuse,
overvalue, overwork, pad, parody, pass all bounds, pervert,
pile it on, prevaricate, protest too much, puff, ramify, redouble,
reinforce, romance, romanticize, sharpen, slant, soup up,
speak falsely, step up, story, strengthen, stretch,
stretch the truth, superabound, talk big, talk in superlatives,
tell a lie, tout, travesty, triple, twist, understate, warp, whet,
wrench
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