to make sth seem longer, better, worse or more important than it really is:
[V] The hotel was really filthy and I'm not exaggerating. * [VN] He tends to exaggerate the difficulties. * I'm sure he exaggerates his Irish accent (= tries to sound more Irish than he really is). * Demand for satellite television has been greatly exaggerated.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
Where does this definition of exaggerate come from?
This entry for exaggerate is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is exaggerate a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, exaggerate is tagged as verb.
Does exaggerate appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — exaggerate appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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