Word Finder - exaggerate

definition

To overstate, to describe more than is fact.

example

He said he'd slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he's exaggerating. The real number is about ten.

We must not exaggerate the result.

True, we must not exaggerate this influence.

It is easy to exaggerate greatly the barrenness of an arid country.

Sometimes, a simile can be used to exaggerate a description.

They vastly exaggerate their own power to determine the result.

Celebrities sometimes tend to exaggerate about their height, especially if they're shorter than average.

The horrors of this war it is impossible to exaggerate.

Just be careful that the movie is accurate and does not exaggerate events too much.

His letters perhaps somewhat exaggerate the danger in which he lived, but there is no doubt that his authority was resisted and his overtures rejected.

Still we must not exaggerate the result.

It may, however, be considered as fairly established that Pytheas made a voyage round the western coasts of Europe, proceeding from Gades, the great Phoenician emporium, and probably the farthest point familiar to the Greeks, round Spain and Gaul to the British Islands, and that he followed the eastern coast of Britain for a considerable distance to the north, obtaining information as to its farther extension in that direction which led him greatly to exaggerate its size.

You don't have to exaggerate, but simply focus on honest feelings that would be most meaningful to him or her.

The method which Fichte first adopted for stating these axioms is not calculated to throw full light upon them, and tends to exaggerate the apparent airiness and unsubstantiality of his deduction.

It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of Goethe's Italian journey.

A brilliant supporting cast exaggerate those defects Clark chose to make his obsessions in order for events to unfold in a suitably arresting fashion.

He may exaggerate about his income or how much or how often he works out every week.

Stains will exaggerate grains, streaks and flecks, so variations should be expected.

They get the job done and they can exaggerate that bad boy or girl feel you may get from driving or riding on a motorcycle.

The exception being enlistment records, as many enthusiastic young men might exaggerate their age in order to join a patriotic cause.

With patience and flexibility, couples can find stunning ring styles that exaggerate both the flair of art deco jewelry as well as the romance of the engagement.

Sometimes quite flamboyant, these natives may have a tendency to exaggerate, but their hearts are usually in the right place.

Muscle contractions can exaggerate certain wrinkles, including "frown lines" between the eyes and "worry lines" on the forehead.

This is true; but we may easily exaggerate it into a falsehood by saying that a piece of experience is entirely constituted by its relation to other experiences.

It is not surprising that he should detect many flaws, but he never fails co exaggerate an error, and seems sometimes completely to miss the point of what Bacon says.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the loss which logic and political economy sustained through the accident by which his life was prematurely cut short.

Nevertheless, in some departments of theory, too, and notably in ethics and jurisprudence, Stoicism has dominated the thought of after ages to a degree not easy to exaggerate.

It is impossible to exaggerate the importance, not only for England but for the world at large, of the epoch which culminated in the passing of the Reform Bill of 1832.

It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the difficulties with which he found himself confronted, but he proved himself more than equal to the task.

Diction employed by the author seems to exaggerate and stretch the truth.

Do not exaggerate in your religion nor utter aught concerning Allah save the truth.

Then just trust the usual ' towpath telegraph ' to exaggerate the difficulties.

The passages in question do not exaggerate his obligations to the "well of English."

It would be difficult to exaggerate the influence of Calvin upon French Protest antism.

It would be impossible to exaggerate the importance of this revolution, which ended by destroying the last vestige of feudality, and prepared that common Italian people which afterwards distinguished itself by the creation of European culture.

The great elevations above the sea-level of the central part of Asia, and of the table-lands of Afghanistan and Persia, tend to exaggerate the winter cold; while the sterility of the surface, due to the small rainfall over the same region, operates powerfully in the opposite direction in increasing the summer heat.

Teutonic legend does not lightly exaggerate, and what to us seems incredible in it may be easily conceived as credible to those by whom and for whom the tales were told; that Sigmund and his son Sinfiotli turned themselves into wolves would be but a sign of exceptional powers to those who believed in werewolves; Fafnir assuming the form of a serpent would be no more incredible to the barbarous Teuton than the similar transformation of Proteus to the Greek.

This universality of fame led to considerable practical discomfort; he was besieged by sightseers, and his nervous trepidation led him perhaps to exaggerate the intensity of the infliction.

It is, however, as Cardinal Hergenrdther points out, possible to exaggerate its importance in this respect; a charter purporting to be a grant by an emperor to a pope of spiritual as well as temporal jurisdiction was at best a double-edged weapon; and the popes generally preferred to base their claim to universal sovereignty on their direct commission as vicars of God.

We must not exaggerate the school and underrate the individual, especially such an individual.

On the other hand, it is the virtue of idealism to emphasize the fact of consciousness, but its vice to exaggerate it, with the consequence of resorting to every kind of paradox to deny the obvious and get rid of bodies.

So prone are men to exaggerate adaptation into aim!

It is, indeed, possible to exaggerate this power.

To sovereigns whose nerves had been shattered by the vicissitudes of the revolutionary epoch these symptoms were in the highest degree alarming; and Metternich was at pains to exaggerate their significance.

C. Lewis in his History of Ancient Astronomy (pp. 466-481) revived the sceptical view, the tendency of modern critics has been rather to exaggerate than to depreciate the value of what was really added by Pytheas to knowledge.

It would be an error to exaggerate either the force or the originality of these early developments of a national Finnish literature, which, moreover, are mostly brief and unambitious in character.

In a similar way we must be careful, in our wonder at the marvellous rapidity of cell-division and growth of bacteria, that we do not exaggerate the significance of the phenomenon.

It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of this measure for the future of Bohemia.

However, like many other acai pill manufacturers, the Power brand seems to somewhat exaggerate how much weight acai can help you lose quickly - and it touts this as fact rather than theory.

Not only do these beauties look different without their artistically applied cosmetics, many of their famed features tend to disappear without the makeup techniques their stylists rely on to either enhance or exaggerate their assets.

In certain cases, this might encourage them to exaggerate the positive points of the refurbished camera and overshadow the negative ones.