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Meanings of exaggerate in English
To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth.
Usage of exaggerate in English
1
Rose may exaggerate to make his point, but the problem is clear.
2
Thus, these c-fos results demonstrate how experience may further exaggerate individual differences.
3
The rather unreliable vibe could exaggerate good news on the material front.
4
He did not in any way exaggerate the condition of the bridge.
5
In letters to FASB, banks complained that the change would exaggerate risks.
6
And let's not exaggerate the number of people we have in Afghanistan.
7
We exaggerate, and even come to believe the tales, after a while.
8
The prospect of outsized profits leads people to exaggerate their own capabilities.
9
He reckons the public exaggerate the horrors of working in the sewers.
10
It is hard to exaggerate the significance and danger of this development.
11
Nevertheless it would be wrong to exaggerate the severity of the land.
12
But it was difficult to exaggerate the swiftness of the national development.
13
He began to exaggerate his movements in order to wake me up.
14
They exaggerate the importance of the physical and become its abject slaves.
15
There is here no desire to exaggerate the importance of birth control.
16
Young and his band exaggerate their stage personas and improvise their lines.
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United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common