exaggerate
/ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/ verbo B2En español: exagerar
- 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.
He/she/it exaggerates · Pasado exaggerated · Participio pasado exaggerated · Forma en -ing exaggerating
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- He/she/it
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- Pasado
- exaggerated
- Participio pasado
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The reasoning was close and intense, but the deductions appeared to me to be far-fetched and exaggerated.
“Its importance can hardly be exaggerated.
Villefort dictated a petition, in which, from an excellent intention, no doubt, Dantès’ patriotic services were exaggerated, and he was made out one of the most active agents of Napoleon’s return.
Speaking of my old friend and biographer, I would take this opportunity to remark that if I burden myself with a companion in my various little inquiries it is not done out of sentiment or caprice, but it is that Watson has some remarkable characteristics of his own, to which in his modesty he has given small attention amid his exaggerated estimates of my own performances.
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