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Synonyms for exaggerate
ɪgˈzædʒ əˌreɪtex·ag·ger·ate

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Wiktionary5.0 / 1 vote

  1. exaggerateverb

    Synonyms:
    overexaggerate

  2. exaggerateverb

    To overstate, to describe more than is fact.

    Synonyms:
    overexaggerate

    Antonyms:
    downplay, understate

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 1 vote

  1. exaggerate

    Synonyms:
    amplify, enlarge, heighten, magnify, overstate, overdraw, strain, overpaint, overestimate

    Antonyms:
    disparage, attenuate, palliate, understate, underestimate, lenity, mitigate, soften, qualify, modify

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplifyverb

    to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

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

    Synonyms:
    blow up, amplify, hyperbolise, enlarge, overdraw, expand, overdo, hyperbolize, inflate, overstate, magnify

  2. overdo, exaggerateverb

    do something to an excessive degree

    "He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups"

    Synonyms:
    amplify, hyperbolise, overdraw, overdo, hyperbolize, overstate, magnify

Editors Contribution5.0 / 1 vote

  1. big

    Submitted by anonymous on November 9, 2020  
  2. boasts

    to talk or write about oneself or something related to oneself in a proud or self-admiring way.

    ''she boasts a host of amazing talents''

    Submitted by rosiesusan.kirk on June 15, 2020  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. exaggerateverb

    Synonyms:
    overstate, heighten, amplify, overcharge, strain, stretch, overstrain, caricature, overcolor, depict extravagantly, color too highly

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. exaggerateverb

    Synonyms:
    overstate

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "exaggerate":

    overstate, overdo, overestimate, overemphasize, inflate, overact, oversell

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How to use exaggerate in a sentence?

  1. Ian Rintoul:

    Things have just come to a head. It's impossible to exaggerate the real fears that people have for their safety and for their lives.

  2. Kate Fan:

    We hear a lot of stories about New York being unsafe, but we feel like people sometimes exaggerate safety issues.

  3. Adam Schiff:

    This is someone whos likely to exaggerate the dangerous impulses of the president towardbelligerence, his proclivity to act without thinking, and his love of conspiracy theories, and Ill, you know, just add one data point to what you were talking about earlier, John Bolton once suggested on Fox News that the Russian hack of the DNC [Democratic National Committee] was a false flag operation that had been conducted by the Obama administration.

  4. Fatih Birol:

    This is a big ask, but it does not exaggerate the scale of what is needed, it is categorically not enough to just rely on gas from non-Russian sources — these supplies are simply not available in the volumes required to substitute for missing deliveries from Russia.

  5. Adrian Hill:

    We did not exaggerate anything. We're not backtracking at all from the 80 %.


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