Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To consider, represent, or cause to appear as larger, more important, or more extreme than is actually the case; overstate.
- intransitive verb To make overstatements.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To heap up; accumulate.
- To increase immoderately or extravagantly; make incongruously large or extended; amplify beyond proper bounds.
- To cause to appear immoderately large or important; amplify in representation or apprehension; enlarge beyond truth or reason.
- In the fine arts, to heighten extravagantly or disproportionately in effect or design: as, to
exaggerate particular features in a painting or statue. - To amplify unduly in thought or in description; use exaggeration in speech or writing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To heap up; to accumulate.
- transitive verb To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
overstate , to describe more than isfact .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
- verb do something to an excessive degree
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Talking Points Memo, the calls exaggerate Mr. Obama's ties to Bill Ayers, the former member of the Weather Underground, question the candidate's patriotism by accusing him of
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Talking Points Memo, the calls exaggerate Mr. Obama's ties to Bill Ayers, the former member of the Weather Underground, question the candidate's patriotism by accusing him of
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The online survey, which polled 1,200 people nationwide, found that 75 percent of respondents thought juice labels exaggerate the presence of healthy ingredients in the product, and a majority lacked confidence about a juice's true contents based on what they read on the front label.
POM Sues Minute Maid For Exploiting Health Benefits Of Pomegranate 2010
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The online survey, which polled 1,200 people nationwide, found that 75 percent of respondents thought juice labels exaggerate the presence of healthy ingredients in the product, and a majority lacked confidence about a juice's true contents based on what they read on the front label.
POM Sues Minute Maid For Exploiting Health Benefits Of Pomegranate 2010
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What your saying is right but all youth that got to know their on earth is mentally conditioned to think like the stronger influences as a youth and the actions and interaction brought to memory get distorted by lack of earth knowledge, and to exaggerate is to be human
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What your saying is right but all youth that got to know their on earth is mentally conditioned to think like the stronger influences as a youth and the actions and interaction brought to memory get distorted by lack of earth knowledge, and to exaggerate is to be human
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What your saying is right but all youth that got to know their on earth is mentally conditioned to think like the stronger influences as a youth and the actions and interaction brought to memory get distorted by lack of earth knowledge, and to exaggerate is to be human
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EDIT (for the person who thinks I "exaggerate")-- Please see above Wikipedia entry, specifically THIS QUOTE (italics mine):
Archive 2009-08-01 Renee 2009
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EDIT (for the person who thinks I "exaggerate")-- Please see above Wikipedia entry, specifically THIS QUOTE (italics mine):
Mary Jo Kopechne 1940-1969 Renee 2009
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REID: Well, I think that we kind of exaggerate where people sit.
grassdog commented on the word exaggerate
I've told you a thousand times, don't exaggerate!
January 25, 2007
uselessness commented on the word exaggerate
Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
January 25, 2007
ruzuzu commented on the word exaggerate
"In the fine arts, to heighten extravagantly or disproportionately in effect or design: as, to exaggerate particular features in a painting or statue. Synonyms and To strain, stretch, overcolor, caricature. See list under aggravate." --CD&C
January 30, 2012