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exaggerated, ppl. a.|ɛgˈzædʒəreɪtɪd|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
†1. Heaped up. Obs. rare—0.
1552Huloet, Exaggerated, repositus, a, um.
2. Magnified or inflated beyong the limits of fact, justice, propriety, or truth; excessive.
The ordinary application of the pple. and ppl. adj. now differs from that of the finite verb: we say that a speaker ‘exaggerates his facts,’ but it is his statements that are described as ‘exaggerated’.
1725Pope Pref. to Shaks., The most exaggerated thoughts; the most verbose and bombast expression. 1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 18 His exaggerated censure of the methods of the ancients..had an effect in diminishing their popularity. 1843A. Bethune Sc. Fireside Stor. 39 Before any exaggerated report could reach them. 1849Cobden Speeches 37 There has prevailed a most exaggerated idea as to the necessity of that force. a1862Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 308 Gods were exaggerated heroes, and their heroes were exaggerated men.
3. Abnormally enlarged, monstrous, overgrown.
1860Tyndall Glac. i. x. 65 My route was an exaggerated zigzag. 1885O. T. Miller in Harper's Mag. Mar. 600 He resembles an exaggerated wren. |