exaggerate
/ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/ verbe B2En français : exagérer, outrer
- 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 · Prétérit exaggerated · Participe passé exaggerated · Forme en -ing exaggerating
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- exaggerate
- He/she/it
- exaggerates
- Prétérit
- exaggerated
- Participe passé
- exaggerated
- Forme en -ing
- exaggerating
Dans la bibliothèque
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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