0 to make something seem larger, more important, better, or worse than it really is:
1 to make something seem larger, more important, better, or worse than it really is:
You shouldn't believe everything she says - she does tend to exaggerate.
The minister suggested that some leading environmentalists were exaggerating the issues somewhat.
She was a bit annoyed, but she wasn't furious - don't exaggerate.
I don't think it would be exaggerating to say that the composer's new work is a masterpiece.
He has exaggerated the whole event to make it sound rather more dramatic than it actually was.
The tests would therefore exaggerate the importance of the differences.
The sharp spectral roll-off in this range exaggerates the ordinal error for a fixed abscissa.
A woman who removed the device may not admit it or report it as an expulsion; she may exaggerate the seriousness of a side effect.