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/ɪgzˈædʒərˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Exaggerate v. t. (past & past part. exaggerated; pres. part. exaggerating)

To heap up; to accumulate. (Obs.) "Earth exaggerated upon them (oaks and firs)."

To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; to delineate extravagantly; to overstate the truth concerning. "A friend exaggerates a man's virtues."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Exaggerate" Quotes from Famous Books

... It would hold a hundred elephants," declared Frane, Junior, who was inclined to exaggerate a good deal ...

— Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's • Laura Lee Hope

... no letter from an editor to read (like the last speaker), and tells a story of a Methodist, on request, praying for rain; and when a terrible storm came, the man who asked, was heard to murmur: "How these Methodists do exaggerate." This was to show the excellence of the dinner. Two other stories were used by the speaker, about the length and discursiveness of his talk. The people need and will read deep, accurate, and scholarly productions. There ought to be a general paper for such. Something ...

— Toasts - and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say - the Right Thing in the Right Way • William Pittenger

... German atrocities and by the more recent deportations, I was inclined to think, for one moment, that I had solved the problem, and that their sympathy for Belgium had brought these soldiers to the rescue. We are so easily inclined to exaggerate the part which ...

— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy

... genius of the Brontes that made their place immortal; but it is the soul of the place that made their genius what it is. You cannot exaggerate its importance. They drank and were saturated with Haworth. When they left it they hungered and thirsted for it; they sickened till the hour of their return. They gave themselves to it with passion, and their works ring with the shock and interchange of two immortalities. Haworth is saturated ...

— The Three Brontes • May Sinclair

... exceptional treatment lavished upon our exceptional case often rouses in a neighborhood hopes that it is impossible for us to fulfil. Then, too, occupied as we are with individuals, we are likely to exaggerate the importance of those causes of poverty that have their origin in the individual. We are likely to over emphasize the moral and mental lacks shown in bad personal habits, such as drunkenness and licentiousness, in thriftlessness, laziness, or ...

— Friendly Visiting among the Poor - A Handbook for Charity Workers • Mary Ellen Richmond

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