Overexaggerate vs. Exaggerate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Overexaggerate and Exaggerate
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Overexaggerate
To exaggerate, to overstate excessively.
"That math test was so hard, nobody could have passed it! Albert Einstein couldn't have done it! Our professor probably had no idea how to solve those equations! I mean-"
"I get it, OK? Quit overexaggerating!"
Exaggerate
To consider, represent, or cause to appear as larger, more important, or more extreme than is actually the case; overstate
Exaggerated his own role in the episode.
Exaggerated the size of the enemy force.
Exaggerated how difficult the project would be.
Exaggerate
To make overstatements.
Exaggerate
To overstate, to describe more than is fact.
I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate!
He said he’d slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he’s exaggerating. The real number is about ten.
Exaggerate
Exaggerative; overblown.
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Exaggerate
To heap up; to accumulate.
Exaggerate
To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning.
A friend exaggerates a man's virtues.
Exaggerate
To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth;
Tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery
Exaggerate
Do something to an excessive degree;
He overdid it last night when he did 100 push-ups
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