English > exaggerate: 2 senses > verb 1, communicationMeaning | To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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Example | "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this 'gracious Old South' imagery" |
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Synonyms | overstate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify |
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Narrower | boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade | show off |
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embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise | add details to |
overemphasize, overemphasise, overstress | place special or excessive emphasis on |
Broader | misinform, mislead | Give false / false or misleading information to |
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Opposite | understate, minimize, minimise, downplay | represent as less significant or important |
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Spanish | ampliar, exagerar, magnificar |
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Catalan | ampliar, exagerar, magnificar |
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Nouns | exaggeration | the act of making something more noticeable / noticeable / noticeable than usual / usual |
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exaggeration | making to seem more important than it really is |
exaggeration | extravagant exaggeration |