Complete Definition of "exaggerate"

English
Pronunciation
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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: با�غ (baalagha)
Chinese
:Simplified characters: 夸大 (ku�-dà)
:Traditional characters: �大 (ku�-dà)
Dutch: overdrijven
Finnish: liioitella
French: exagérer
German: übertreiben
Greek: ��ε�βάλλ� [�ipe�r�valo�], �α�α�ο��κ�ν� [pa�rafu�sko�no�], μεγαλο�οι� [me�ɣa�lo�pi�o�], �α�ακάν� [�para�kano�]
Hebrew: ������ (?)
Icelandic: �kja
Italian: esagerare
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Japanese: �張�� (koch�-suru)
Korean: 과����� (gwa-jang-ha-sip-si-yo)
Polish: wyolbrzymia�
Russian: п�е�вили�ива�� (preuvili�ivať), ���и�ова�� (utrirovať)
Spanish: exagerar
Swedish: överdriva
Turkish: abartmak
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Derived terms
exaggeratedly
exaggeratingly
exaggerative
exaggeratively
exaggerativeness
exaggerator
exaggeratory

Related terms
exaggeration

Category:English verbs
Category:English transitive verbs

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