exaggerate

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  1. transitive verb To represent as greater than is actually the case; overstate: exaggerate the size of the enemy force; exaggerated his own role in the episode.
  2. transitive verb To enlarge or increase to an abnormal degree: thick lenses that exaggerated the size of her eyes.
  3. intransitive verb To make overstatements.
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  • “You would like me to exaggerate, then?” he asked. —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • If you think I exaggerate, ask yourself what role academic economists have played in the present crisis.
  • You exaggerate, and then it's like spraying pepper in your eyes. —  Twitch
  • I'm painfully listening to Sarah Palin's acceptance stump speech in which she continues to misstate, exaggerate, and lie about her record as Governor. —  Nashville for the 21st Century
  • Alex will at times exaggerate, although over the years, he has simmered down doing that. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
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  1. Latin exaggerāre, exaggerāt-, to heap up, magnify : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + aggerāre, to pile up (from agger, pile, from aggerere, to bring to : ad-, ad- + gerere, to bring).

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  1. from Latin exaggeratus, past participle of exaggerare (later F. exagérer = Spanish Portuguese exagerar = Italian esagerare), heap up, increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, exaggerate, from ex, out, up, + aggerare, heap up, from agger, a heap, mound: see agger.
 

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