EXAGGERATE
\ɛɡzˈad͡ʒəɹˌe͡ɪt], \ɛɡzˈadʒəɹˌeɪt], \ɛ_ɡ_z_ˈa_dʒ_ə_ɹ_ˌeɪ_t]\
Definitions of EXAGGERATE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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do something to an excessive degree; "He overdid it last night when he did 100 push-ups"
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to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
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do something to an excessive degree; "He overdid it last night when he did 100 push-ups"
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to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Thomas Sheridan
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