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Definition of Exaggerates
1. exaggerate [v] - See also: exaggerate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exaggerates
Literary usage of Exaggerates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1902)
"Hazlitt probably exaggerates, but it is true that Wordsworth and Coleridge, then
in their revolutionary fever, were strongly impressed. ..."
2. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1873)
"... in this figure, greatly exaggerates the proportion in depth,) of being pushed
down over a bed of rocks of any given probable outline—say c to D. Does he ..."
3. The History of Chivalry: Or, Knighthood and Its Times by Charles Mills (1825)
"... His chivalric Bearing Commencement of the Decline of Chivalry The Civil Wars
injured Chivalry Caxton's Lamentation He exaggerates the Evil Many gallant ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1853)
"It is not unlikely that her strong language exaggerates the feeling, such as it
was. ' All this was very pleasant, and made the occupation of great ..."
5. Publication by Field Columbian Museum (1903)
"If the teller of the story exaggerates, the fire does not burn well. The sticks
of wood thrown into the fire as fuel personify the victims struck or killed. ..."
6. The history of the French revolution, tr. with notes by F. Shoberl by Thomas Carlyle, Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers (1838)
"... and he began to maintain that foreigners kept in their pay two classes of
conspirators in France, the exaggerates, who urged every thing on to disorder, ..."
7. The Home and Foreign Review (1863)
"In the early Christian persecutions, he puts the case for the emperors stronger
than it really was (p. 118); but he exaggerates the despotism of the Roman ..."
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