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单词

exaggerate

释义

exaggerate

verb

UK /ɪɡˈzædʒəreɪt/

Word Forms

present tense
I/you/we/they	exaggerate
he/she/it	exaggerates
present participle	exaggerating
past tense	exaggerated
past participle	exaggerated

1
intransitive/transitive to describe something in a way that makes it seem better, worse, larger, more important etc than it really is
Don’t exaggerate! It wasn’t that bad!
greatly/grossly/wildly exaggerate something:
The paper’s political influence has been greatly exaggerated.
exaggerate the importance/significance of something:
We should not exaggerate the importance of this agreement.
Synonyms and related words
To exaggerate and overstate
aggrandise
aggrandize
exaggerate
2
transitive literaryto make something seem more extreme
Synonyms and related words
To exaggerate and overstate
aggrandise
aggrandize
exaggerate

exaggerate

verb

US /ɪɡˈzædʒəˌreɪt/

Word Forms

present tense
I/you/we/they	exaggerate
he/she/it	exaggerates
present participle	exaggerating
past tense	exaggerated
past participle	exaggerated

1
intransitive/transitive to describe something in a way that makes it seem better, worse, larger, more important, etc. than it really is
Don’t exaggerate! It wasn’t that bad!
greatly/grossly/wildly exaggerate something:
The paper’s political influence has been greatly exaggerated.
exaggerate the importance/significance of something:
We should not exaggerate the importance of this agreement.
Synonyms and related words
To exaggerate and overstate
aggrandise
aggrandize
exaggerate
2
transitive literaryto make something seem more extreme
Synonyms and related words
To exaggerate and overstate
aggrandise
aggrandize
exaggerate

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