Exaggerate

Verb

 * 1) To overstate, to describe more than is fact.

Adverbs for Exaggerate
monstrously; sensationally; absurdly; vain-gloriously; recklessly; grossly; amusingly;crudely; grotesquely; rhetorically; journalistically; palpably; virulently; turbulently.

Synonyms for Exaggerate
magnify, amplify, heighten, enlarge, embellish, stretch, embroider, overdo, expand.

Antonyms for Exaggerate

 * downplay, understate
 * minimize, lessen, shrink, reduce, attenuate, depreciate.

Derived terms

 * exaggeratedly
 * exaggeratingly
 * exaggerative
 * exaggeratively
 * exaggerativeness
 * exaggerator
 * exaggeratory

Related terms

 * exaggeration

Thesaurus
accelerate, aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, ballyhoo, be untruthful, beef up, belie, blow up, build up, burlesque, camouflage, caricature, carry too far, color, complicate, concentrate, condense, consolidate, deceive, deepen, disguise, distort, double, draw the longbow, embellish, enhance, equivocate, exacerbate, exceed, exhaust, falsify, fib, fudge, garble, go beyond, go overboard, go to extremes, go too far, heat up, heighten, hop up, hot up, hyperbolize, idealize, intensify, jazz up, key up, know no bounds, lay it on, lie, lie flatly, magnify, make complex, make much of, miscolor, mislead, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, misteach, overact, overappraise, overassess, overcalculate, overcarry, overcharge, overcount, overdevelop, overdo, overdraw, overdrive, overelaborate, overemphasize, overesteem, overestimate, overexercise, overexert, overexpend, overgo, overindulge, overjump, overlabor, overleap, overmeasure, overpaint, overpass, overplay, overpraise, overprize, overrate, overreach, overreact, overreact to, overreckon, overrun, oversell, overshoot, overshoot the field, overshoot the mark, overspeak, overspend, overstate, overstep, overstrain, overstress, overstride, overstudy, overtask, overtax, overtrain, overuse, overvalue, overwork, pad, parody, pass all bounds, pervert, pile it on, prevaricate, protest too much, puff, ramify, redouble, reinforce, romance, romanticize, sharpen, slant, soup up, speak falsely, step up, story, strengthen, stretch, stretch the truth, superabound, talk big, talk in superlatives, tell a lie, tout, travesty, triple, twist, understate, warp, whet, wrench

Etymology
From exaggeratus:, past participle of exaggerare: < ex: + aggerare: < agger: < aggerere:, adgerere: < ad: + gerere:.

Translations

 * Albanian: zmadhoj, teproj
 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 誇大, 夸大
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 * Finnish:
 * French:, outrer
 * German:
 * Greek:, παραφουσκώνω,  μεγαλοποιώ,  παρακάνω
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: túloz, eltúloz
 * Icelandic:, yfirdrífa


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 誇張
 * Korean: 과대시하다, 과장하다
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: wyolbrzymiać, przesadzać
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: преувеличивать, преувеличить ,
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 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: tuükön