exaggrate
1. If you exaggerate, you make the thing that you are talking about
seem bigger or more important than it actually is.
I am exaggerating a little.
It is impossible to exaggerate
the horrors of the system.
VB WITH OR WITHOUT OBJ
2. To exaggerate something such as a gesture means to make it very
obvious.
Ballet exaggerates ordinary
body movements.
VB WITH OBJ
exaggeration
1. Isn't that a bit of an exaggeration?
One can speak, without exaggeration,
of a peaceful revolution.
COUNT N, UNCOUNT N
exaggerated
1. Brody heaved an exaggerated sigh.
ADJ