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exaggerate

verb
/ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/

Etymology

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”).

  1. borrowed from exaggerātus

Definitions

  1. To overstate, to describe more than the fact.

    • 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.

  2. Exaggerative

    Exaggerative; overblown.

    • And in general, if it is a natural feeling, let it be, but at normal, living levels, not too exaggerate.
    • Water was invading, like some loving arms, some protecting wings, but its love and care were too exaggerate, they were deadly.
    • You will leave [the camp] and when confronted to the smallest inconvenience you will have again these reactions that, for me, are very exaggerate.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at exaggerate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01exaggerate02overblown03overblow04blossoms05blossom06rich07sugary08exaggeratedly09exaggerated

A definitional loop anchored at exaggerate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at exaggerate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA