0 present participle of exaggerate
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.
By aping the discourse of nineteenth-century materialistic science, it acted out its hidden tensions, exaggerating them into unresolvable paradoxes.
By exaggerating the basis for discretion, one increases power.
His arguments defy collegial courtesy, exaggerating the trivial and making distorted or erroneous assertions.
