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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin exaggerātus, perfect passive participle of exaggerō (“to heap up, increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, exaggerate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex- (“out, up”) + aggerō, aggerāre (“to heap up”), from agger (“a pile, heap, mound, dike, mole, pier, etc.”), from aggerō, aggerere (“to bear, carry to (some place), bring together”), from ad- (“to, toward”) +‎ gerō (“to carry”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/, /ɛk(s)ˈzæ(ɡ)d͡ʒɜː(ɹ).ɹeɪt/, /ɪɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/

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• Hyphenation: ex‧ag‧ger‧ate

Verb

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exaggerate (third-person singular simple present exaggerates, present participle exaggerating, simple past and past participle exaggerated)

1. To overstate, to describe more than the fact. Synonyms: big up, overexaggerate, overstate, hyperbolize, stretch, overcharge; see also Thesaurus:exaggerate Antonyms: belittle, downplay, understate, trivialize I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate! He said he’d slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he’s exaggerating. The real number is about ten.
   • 2023 April 5, Mark Hay, “Does Testosterone Affect Your Politics?”, in VICE‎[1]:These testosterone thumpers have repackaged and exaggerated the study, with a credulity born of zealotry, into articles with shitposty titles like “Trust The Science: Study Links Left-Wing Politics to Lower Testosterone,” casting it as hard proof of their hormonal theories of healthy politics.

Derived terms

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• exaggeratedly
• exaggeratingly
• exaggerative
• exaggeratively
• exaggerativeness
• exaggerator
• exaggeratory
• hyperexaggerate
• underexaggerate

Related terms

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• exaggeration

Translations

[edit] to overstate, to describe more than is fact

Albanian: zmadhoj (sq), teproj (sq) Arabic: بَالَغَ (bālaḡa) Azerbaijani: şişirtmək (az), mübaliğə etmək Bashkir: арттырыу (arttırıw) Bulgarian: преувеличавам (bg) (preuveličavam) Catalan: exagerar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 誇大 / 夸大 (zh) (kuādà), 誇張 / 夸张 (zh) (kuāzhāng) Czech: přehánět (cs) Danish: overdrive Dutch: overdrijven (nl) Esperanto: troigi (eo) Finnish: liioitella (fi) French: exagérer (fr), outrer (fr) Galician: esaxerar (gl) Georgian: გადაჭარბება (gadač̣arbeba), გაზვიადება (gazviadeba) German: übertreiben (de) Greek: υπερβάλλω (el) (ypervállo), παραφουσκώνω (el) (parafouskóno), μεγαλοποιώ (el) (megalopoió), παρακάνω (el) (parakáno) Hawaiian: hoʻonui ʻōlelo Hebrew: הגזים (he) (higzím) Hungarian: túloz (hu), eltúloz (hu) Icelandic: ýkja, yfirdrífa Indonesian: membesar-besarkan (id), melebih-lebihkan (id) Italian: esagerare (it) Ivatan: mapanatun Japanese: 誇張する (ja) (kochō suru), 大袈裟に言う (ja) (ōgesa ni iu) Korean: 과대시하다 (gwadaesi-hada), 과장하다 (ko) (gwajan-ghada) Latin: verbīs augeō Lun Bawang: mefoot Macedonian: преувеличува (preuveličuva) Māori: tahupera, whakamōmona kōrero, hau pirau (idiomatic) Norwegian: overdrive (no) Bokmål: overdrive (no), ta i Persian: گزاف گفتن (gazâf goftan), اغراق کردن (fa) (eġrâq kardan) Polish: wyolbrzymiać (pl), przesadzać (pl) Portuguese: exagerar (pt) Quechua: anchachay Romanian: exagera (ro) Russian: преувели́чивать (ru) impf (preuvelíčivatʹ), преувели́чить (ru) pf (preuvelíčitʹ), утри́ровать (ru) (utrírovatʹ) Spanish: exagerar (es) Swedish: överdriva (sv), ta i (sv) Tagalog: magpalaki, palakihin Turkish: abartmak (tr), mübalağa etmek (tr) Ukrainian: перебі́льшувати impf (perebílʹšuvaty), перебі́льшити pf (perebílʹšyty) Volapük: tuükön (vo)

Adjective

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exaggerate (comparative more exaggerate, superlative most exaggerate)

1. Exaggerative; overblown.
   • 1901, Valentin Matcas, The Human Addictions:And in general, if it is a natural feeling, let it be, but at normal, living levels, not too exaggerate.
   • 2005, Daniel Marin, Megator, page 4:Water was invading, like some loving arms, some protecting wings, but its love and care were too exaggerate, they were deadly.
   • 2012, Joy Damousi, Mariano Ben Plotkin, Psychoanalysis and Politics, page 202:You will leave [the camp] and when confronted to the smallest inconvenience you will have again these reactions that, for me, are very exaggerate.
   • 2012, Yair Goldreich, The Climate of Israel: Observation, Research and Application, page 132:From this comparison, it seems that the data in Table 7.7 are reasonable, while Ashbel's values are exaggerate.

Further reading

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• “exaggerate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “exaggerate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “exaggerate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Pronunciation

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• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛk.saɡ.ɡɛˈraː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eɡ.zad.d͡ʒeˈraː.te]

Verb

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exaggerāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of exaggerō

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