exaggerate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

   tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery

2. 2
   verb

   To overstate, to describe more than the fact.

   I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate!

3. 3
   adj

   Exaggerative; overblown.

   And in general, if it is a natural feeling, let it be, but at normal, living levels, not too exaggerate.

4. 4
   verb

   do something to an excessive degree

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”).