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Definition of Exaggerate
1. Verb. To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth. "Tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
Generic synonyms: Misinform, Mislead
Specialized synonyms: Overemphasise, Overemphasize, Overstress, Blow, Bluster, Boast, Brag, Gas, Gasconade, Shoot A Line, Swash, Tout, Vaunt, Aggrandise, Aggrandize, Blow Up, Dramatise, Dramatize, Embellish, Embroider, Lard, Pad
Derivative terms: Exaggeration, Exaggeration, Exaggeration, Hyperbole, Magnification, Overstatement
Antonyms: Understate
2. Verb. Do something to an excessive degree. "He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups"
Specialized synonyms: Overpraise, Oversimplify, Overleap
Generic synonyms: Do, Make
Derivative terms: Exaggeration
Definition of Exaggerate
1. v. t. To heap up; to accumulate.
Definition of Exaggerate
1. Verb. To overstate, to describe more than is fact. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exaggerate
1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exaggerate
Literary usage of Exaggerate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet by John Sherman (1895)
"Tendency of Democratic Members of Both Houses to exaggerate the Evil Times- Debate
Over the Bill to Provide for Issuing Silver Coin in Place of Fractional ..."
2. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by Gerhard Richard Lomer, John William Cunliffe (1915)
"But it does not 'Ma pensée au grand lour partout s offre et 5 exaggerate, ...
It must exaggerate each second's playing baseball and accomplishing nothing ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"It is difficult to exaggerate the value of Mr. Hatcher's and Mr. Peterson's long
and arduous labors. Materials have now been gathered that will make ..."
4. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. by Charles Darwin (1871)
"... marriages of mankind — Attention paid by savages to ornaments — Their ideas
of beauty in woman — The tendency to exaggerate each natural peculiarity. ..."
5. The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles ( Darwin (1890)
"... the marriages of mankind—Attention paid by savages to ornaments—• Their ideas
of beauty in woman—The tendency to exaggerate each natural peculiarity. ..."
6. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1906)
"... causes harm by doing nothing, it is, on the other hand, apt to exaggerate the
guilt of aA/ person who, not wilfully but out of heedlessness or rashness, ..."
7. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1906)
"3° To a Spanish Tune, called ' Folias' CEASE t' exaggerate your anguish, Ye, who
for the gout complain ! Lovers, that in absence languish, Only know, ..."
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