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Exaggerate

//ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Exaggerative; overblown.

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

Verb
  1. 1
    To overstate, to describe more than the fact.

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

  2. 2
    to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth wordnet
  3. 3
    do something to an excessive degree wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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”).

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