English > exaggerate: 2 senses > verb 1, communication| Meaning | 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 |
