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Complete Definition of "exaggerate"

English
Pronunciation
audio|en-us-exaggerate.ogg|Audio (US)

Verb
en-verb|exaggerat|ing
#to overstate, to describe more than is fact
#: I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate!

Translations
trans-top|to overstate, to describe more than is fact
Albanian: zmadhoj, teproj
Arabic: بالغ (baalagha)
Chinese
:Simplified characters: 夸大 (kuā-dà)
:Traditional characters: 誇大 (kuā-dà)
Dutch: overdrijven
Finnish: liioitella
French: exagérer
German: übertreiben
Greek: υπερβάλλω [ˌipe̞rˈvalo̞], παραφουσκώνω [paˌrafuˈsko̞no̞], μεγαλοποιώ [me̞ɣaˌlo̞piˈo̞], παρακάνω [ˌparaˈkano̞]
Hebrew: להגזים (?)
Icelandic: Ýkja
Italian: esagerare
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Japanese: 誇張する (kochō-suru)
Korean: 과장하십시요 (gwa-jang-ha-sip-si-yo)
Polish: wyolbrzymiać
Russian: преувиличивать (preuviličivať), утрировать (utrirovať)
Spanish: exagerar
Swedish: överdriva
Turkish: abartmak
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Derived terms
exaggeratedly
exaggeratingly
exaggerative
exaggeratively
exaggerativeness
exaggerator
exaggeratory

Related terms
exaggeration

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Category:English transitive verbs

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