Definitions
to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin exaggerātus, perfect passive participle of exaggerō (“to heap up, increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, exaggerate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), 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- (“to, toward”) + gerō (“to carry”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“And in general, if it is a natural feeling, let it be, but at normal, living levels, not too exaggerate.”
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