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- Dictionaryexaggerate/ɪɡˈzadʒəreɪt/
verb
- 1. represent (something) as being larger, better, or worse than it really is: "he was apt to exaggerate any aches and pains"
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EXAGGERATE definition: 1. to make something seem larger, more important, better, or worse than it really is: 2. to make…. Learn more.
The meaning of EXAGGERATE is to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth : overstate. How to use exaggerate in a sentence.
We all have a tendency to exaggerate. It makes our stories funnier, or more dramatic. After all, when you exaggerate, you're not really lying — you're just overstating things. The word exaggerate can also suggest that a particular characteristic is overdone or almost larger than life.
EXAGGERATE meaning: 1. to make something seem larger, more important, better, or worse than it really is: 2. to make…. Learn more.
If you exaggerate, you indicate that something is, for example, worse or more important than it really is.
Definition of exaggerate verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. to make something seem larger, better, worse or more important than it really is. The hotel was really filthy and I'm not exaggerating. exaggerate something He tends to exaggerate the difficulties.
If you exaggerate, you indicate that something is, for example, worse or more important than it really is. 2. If something exaggerates a situation, quality, or feature, it makes the situation, quality, or feature appear greater, more obvious, or more important than it really is.
If you exaggerate, you indicate that something is, for example, worse or more important than it really is. He thinks I'm exaggerating. Like many stories about him, it smacks of exaggeration.
EXAGGERATE definition: to make something seem larger, better, worse, etc than it really is: . Learn more.
1. to magnify beyond the limits of truth; overstate; represent disproportionately: He exaggerates his accomplishments. 2. to increase or enlarge abnormally: That dress exaggerates my thinness. 3. to employ exaggeration, as in speech or writing. ex•ag′ger•a`tor, n.
