exaggerate
verb · adjectiveB2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Động từ
verbV_es/s
exaggerates
V_ing/Gerund
exaggerating
V_ed/pp
exaggerated
- 1.
To overstate, to describe more than the 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.
Đồng nghĩa: big up, overexaggerate, overstate, hyperbolize, stretch, overcharge
Tính từ
adjectiveComparative
more exaggerate
Superlative
most exaggerate
- 1.
Exaggerative; overblown.
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hyperexaggerateunderexaggerateexaggeratedlyexaggeratinglyexaggerativeexaggerativelyexaggerativenessexaggeratorexaggeratory
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Nguồn gốc từ
Latin exaggerātus, perfect passive participle of exaggerō (to heap up, increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, exaggerate) (see -ate and -ate), 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- + gerō.