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exaggerate English

Meaning exaggerate meaning

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Definitions in simple English

exaggerate

If you exaggerate, then you make something look bigger or more important than it really is.

exaggerate

to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth tended to romanticize and exaggerate this 'gracious Old South' imagery (= overdo) do something to an excessive degree He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups

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Conjugation exaggerate conjugation

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exaggerate · verb

Examples exaggerate examples

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Simple sentences

There's no need to exaggerate.
Let's not exaggerate.
Don't exaggerate.
Don't take it literally. He is inclined to exaggerate.
The old man tends to exaggerate.
The agitator is inclined to exaggerate trivial matters.
Tom tends to exaggerate.
Tom has a tendency to exaggerate.
I've told you a million times not to exaggerate.
Men tend to exaggerate their number of sexual partners.
People sometimes exaggerate their abilities.
I sometimes exaggerate.
To underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.
Let's not exaggerate the facts.
You really exaggerate returning at this time.
She seems to have a tendency to exaggerate things.
Don't exaggerate!

Movie subtitles

Angus tends to exaggerate.
Don't exaggerate, darling.
Do I paint a correct picture, or do I exaggerate?
I hate doctors. All you do is exaggerate to make more money.
I did exaggerate a little before.
Don't exaggerate.
He does not exaggerate.
Don't exaggerate. You're the greatest scholar of this city.
A ballad to exaggerate your manhood for the sake of your friends.
Let's not exaggerate.
Mr. Jorkin doesn't exaggerate the imprudence of allowing his. misdemeanors to be made public.
You exaggerate to make your point.
They always exaggerate.
Let's not exaggerate, o.k.?
No need to exaggerate.
You exaggerate, my friend.
My dear Bibikoff, if only you wouldn't exaggerate so!
I'm afraid you exaggerate.
We do not exaggerate when we say a new understanding between officers and men has come to the fleet.
Well, don't exaggerate, just call her.
Connie, you mustn't exaggerate.
Don't let's exaggerate.
You exaggerate!
You exaggerate, Watson, and half the women in the world wish you didn't.
Oh, come, my High Justice, don't exaggerate.
You exaggerate, Ira. You think so?
Father, don't exaggerate.
I think you exaggerate.
You exaggerate, but I was a beautiful baby.
Don't exaggerate!
You do not exaggerate.
No, you do not exaggerate, it did not know them all.
I am flattered, monsieur, but you exaggerate.
I don't exaggerate. That's what the doctor told you.

News and current affairs

It is difficult to exaggerate the strange sentiment in the West which one might call Palestine romanticism.
While we shouldn't exaggerate the Internet's benefits, it can reduce business costs, increase access to information, and create opportunities.
Finally, tightened financial market regulation could perhaps slow some of the hot-money flows that exaggerate the booms and busts.
I do not want to exaggerate the threat that Lepper poses, but I believe he represents a poisonous model of irrational politics.
In any case, no one should exaggerate the problem of piracy.
With its large populations and fast-growing economies, it is difficult to exaggerate the region's economic importance.
So they exaggerate and tell stories about how the European economy is fundamentally different from the US economy.
While standard measures exaggerate youth unemployment, they likely understate adult unemployment, because those who have given up their job search are not counted among the unemployed.
Eagerness to overcome this guilt might even have prompted some people to exaggerate Israeli aggression.
Their general approach is to exaggerate the uncertainties of climate science and to leave the impression that climate scientists are engaged in some kind of conspiracy to frighten the public.
But we should not exaggerate the extent of the IMF's change of heart.
If you think I exaggerate, you have not been paying close attention.
But they invariably exaggerate what they have to offer, as well as the perils that would result should their opponents win.

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