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/ɪgzˈædʒərˌeɪtəd/ /ɪgzˈædʒərˌeɪtɪd/ 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."

adjective

Exaggerated adj. Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth.

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Etymology of 'Exaggerated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Exaggerated" Quotes from Famous Books

... to Greenwell. Yes! and by to-night, a most exaggerated account of the whole affair will be spread over the whole country, and we will be equally suspected by our own people. Those who spread useless falsehoods about us will gladly have a foundation for a monstrous one. ...

— A Confederate Girl's Diary • Sarah Morgan Dawson

... and sympathy with mental finesse, must also specially adapt this actor to the correct assumption of the character of Iago. Those who have never seen him in it may know by analogy that his merits are not exaggerated. We take it that Iago is a sharply intellectual personage, though his logic, warped by grovelling purpose, becomes sophistry, while lustful and envious intrigues occupy his skilful brain. We have described the beauty of Booth's countenance in repose. But it is equally remarkable for ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 • Various

... large Egyptian garrisons confined in two or three towns, and unable—through fear, as it proved, but on account of formidable enemies, as was alleged—to move outside them. The reports of trouble and hostility were no doubt exaggerated, but still there was a simmering of disturbance below the surface that portended peril in the future; and read by the light of after events, it seems little short of miraculous that General Gordon was able to keep it under by his own personal energy and the magic of his name. When on the point ...

— The Life of Gordon, Volume II • Demetrius Charles Boulger

... this to Rupert, who, I now perceived for the first time, did not hesitate to laugh at some of his father's notions, as puritanical and exaggerated. He maintained that every one was the best judge of what he liked, and that the sea had produced quite as fair a proportion of saints as the land. He was not certain, considering the great difference there was in numbers, that more good men might not be traced in connection ...

— Afloat And Ashore • James Fenimore Cooper

... find evidence of the fact, because there we find in exaggerated shapes all the evils I have been defining. The best mode of testing the matter is to take the statistics of some large city which has grown from a country town to a vast business hive within a very few years. Chicago fulfils these conditions precisely. In 1852 ...

— Wear and Tear - or, Hints for the Overworked • Silas Weir Mitchell

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