Synonyms for Exaggerate
ɪgˈzædʒ əˌreɪtex·ag·ger·ate

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1. exaggerateverb

   Synonyms:
   overexaggerate

2. exaggerateverb

   To overstate, to describe more than is fact.

   Synonyms:
   overexaggerate

   Antonyms:
   downplay, understate

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1. exaggerate

   Synonyms:
   amplify, enlarge, heighten, magnify, overstate, overdraw, strain, overpaint, overestimate

   Antonyms:
   disparage, attenuate, palliate, understate, underestimate, lenity, mitigate, soften, qualify, modify

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1. overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplifyverb

   to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

   "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"

   Synonyms:
   exaggerate, blow up, amplify, hyperbolise, enlarge, overdraw, expand, overdo, hyperbolize, inflate, overstate, magnify

2. overdo, exaggerateverb

   do something to an excessive degree

   "He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups"

   Synonyms:
   exaggerate, amplify, hyperbolise, overdraw, overdo, hyperbolize, overstate, magnify

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1. big

   Submitted by anonymous on November 9, 2020  

2. boasts

   to talk or write about oneself or something related to oneself in a proud or self-admiring way.

   ''she boasts a host of amazing talents''

   Submitted by rosiesusan.kirk on June 15, 2020  

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1. exaggerateverb

   Synonyms:
   overstate, heighten, amplify, overcharge, strain, stretch, overstrain, caricature, overcolor, depict extravagantly, color too highly

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1. exaggerateverb

   Synonyms:
   overstate

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1. List of paraphrases for "exaggerate":

   overstate, overdo, overestimate, overemphasize, inflate, overact, oversell

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1. Heidi Beirich:

   They’re often a small group of people ... and they tend to fade away due to their inability to organize. they don’t provide their membership lists. They’re not going to tell us or, if they give us numbers, they exaggerate.

2. Edward Chow:

   People exaggerate, particularly in Washington, the impact of gas over oil, for every dollar that Russia earns from oil and gas, 80 cents of that is oil and only 20 cents of it is gas.

3. Roy Ratcliff:

   He sort of played with his persona to exaggerate it and make people more fearful, this was just his way — a morbid humor to deal with his hopeless situation.

4. Francis Bacon:

   Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.

5. Angel Cabrera:

   The impact it's going to have is hard to exaggerate, this will be seen as perhaps the biggest economic development event in the history of this region.