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.
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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
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
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
Nicolas 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
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
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
The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.
Hugh Mackay
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
Sarah Bernhardt
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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