Dictionary Definition
exaggerate
Verb
1 to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended
to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
[syn: overstate,
overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify] [ant: understate]
2 do something to an excessive degree; "He
overdid it last night when he did 100 push-ups" [syn: overdo]
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to overstate, to describe more than is fact
- Albanian: zmadhoj, teproj
- Arabic: بالغ (baalagha)
- Chinese:
- Czech: přehánět
- Dutch: overdrijven
- Finnish: liioitella
- French: exagérer
- German: übertreiben
- Greek: υπερβάλλω [ˌipe̞rˈvalo̞], παραφουσκώνω [paˌrafuˈsko̞no̞], μεγαλοποιώ [me̞ɣaˌlo̞piˈo̞], παρακάνω [ˌparaˈkano̞]
- Hebrew: להגזים (?)
- Icelandic: Ýkja
- Italian: esagerare
- Japanese: 誇張する (kochō-suru)
- Korean: 과장하십시요 (gwa-jang-ha-sip-si-yo)
- Polish: wyolbrzymiać
- Russian: преувиличивать (preuviličivať), утрировать (utrirovať)
- Spanish: exagerar
- Swedish: överdriva
- Turkish: abartmak
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accelerate, aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, ballyhoo, be untruthful, beef
up, belie, blow up, build
up, burlesque,
camouflage, caricature, carry too far,
color, complicate, concentrate, condense, consolidate, deceive, deepen, disguise, distort, double, draw the longbow,
embellish, enhance, equivocate, exacerbate, exceed, exhaust, falsify, fib, fudge, garble, go beyond, go overboard,
go to extremes, go too far, heat up, heighten, hop up, hot up,
hyperbolize,
idealize, intensify, jazz up, key up,
know no bounds, lay it on, lie, lie flatly, magnify, make complex, make much
of, miscolor, mislead, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, misteach, overact, overappraise, overassess, overcalculate, overcarry, overcharge, overcount, overdevelop, overdo, overdraw, overdrive, overelaborate, overemphasize, overesteem, overestimate, overexercise, overexert, overexpend, overgo, overindulge, overjump, overlabor, overleap, overmeasure, overpaint, overpass, overplay, overpraise, overprize, overrate, overreach, overreact, overreact to,
overreckon, overrun, oversell, overshoot, overshoot the
field, overshoot the mark, overspeak, overspend, overstate, overstep, overstrain, overstress, overstride, overstudy, overtask, overtax, overtrain, overuse, overvalue, overwork, pad, parody, pass all bounds, pervert, pile it on, prevaricate, protest too
much, puff, ramify, redouble, reinforce, romance, romanticize, sharpen, slant, soup up, speak falsely,
step up, story, strengthen, stretch, stretch the truth,
superabound, talk
big, talk in superlatives, tell a lie, tout, travesty, triple, twist, understate, warp, whet, wrench