Definition of Exaggerate

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Definition of Exaggerate
	Exaggerate To heap up; to accumulate. To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning. Related Definitions: Accumulate, Amplify, Beyond, Concerning, Delineate, Enlarge, Extravagantly, Heap, Magnify, Or, Overstate, The, To, Truth, Up

Exaggerate Quotations

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
Eric Hoffer

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore de Balzac

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
Nicolas de Chamfort

It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
Floyd Abrams

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
Matthew Arnold

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.
Radha Mitchell

Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
Charles de Secondat

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.
Hugh Mackay

It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.
Nick Clooney

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.
Bob Edwards

Exaggerate Translations

exaggerate in Danish is overdrive
exaggerate in Dutch is chargeren, overdrijven
exaggerate in Italian is esagerare
exaggerate in Norwegian is overdrive
exaggerate in Spanish is exagerar

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