Associations to the word «Exaggerate»
Noun
Adverb
Wiktionary
EXAGGERATE, verb. To overstate, to describe more than is fact.
Dictionary definition
EXAGGERATE, verb. To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery".
EXAGGERATE, verb. Do something to an excessive degree; "He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.