Definition of Exaggerating

1. a. That exaggerates; enlarging beyond bounds.

Definition of Exaggerating

1. Verb. (present participle of exaggerate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exaggerating

1. exaggerate [v] - See also: exaggerate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exaggerating

exacuated
exacuates
exacuating
exaemia
exaeresis
exaerobic
exaflop
exaflops
exagerate
exageration
exaggerate
exaggerated
exaggeratedly
exaggeratedness
exaggerates
exaggerating (current term)
exaggeratingly
exaggeration
exaggerations
exaggerative
exaggeratively
exaggerativeness
exaggerator
exaggerators
exaggeratory
exaggregate
exagitate
exagitation
exagitations
exagram

Literary usage of Exaggerating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"Tragical food farce. Spec 118:224 F 24 '17 \Vh-it ail« the House of commons? Spec 118: Spec 118:261-3 Mr 3 '17 Worst of exaggerating. ..."

2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1853)
"... without exaggerating the importance of any one period, and impartially weighing the circumstances that affected each, with the various lights and shades ..."

3. The Northern Courts: Containing Original Memoirs of the Sovereigns of Sweden by John Brown (1818)
"... artfully exaggerating his danger, and suppressing his own guilty machinations that had involved his country in a ruinous war, he worked so powerfully ..."

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