exaggeration

Definition of exaggeration in English English dictionary: The act of heaping or piling up; The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth, reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement; A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor; {n} the act of heaping up, the act of enlarging, aggravation, addition, increase; The enlargement of a feature in order to emphasize it This is often done in cartography to allow an important feature to be shown clearly on a small scale map; a statement or way of saying something that makes something seem better, larger etc than it really is; the act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness" making to seem more important than it really is; extravagant exaggeration; {i} overstatement, act of making something seem greater or more important than it really is; act of making something larger than normal; the act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness"; Increasing or enlarging an object or figure to communicate ideas or feelings; making to seem more important than it really is; An image-development strategy used to emphasize a portion or aspect of an image; The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement
exaggerate: To overstate, to describe more than is fact
I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate!.
exaggerate: to overstate
exaggerate: do something to an excessive degree; "He overdid it last night when he did 100 push-ups"
exaggerate: {f} overstate, make something seem greater or more important than it really is; make larger than normal
exaggerate: If something exaggerates a situation, quality, or feature, it makes the situation, quality, or feature appear greater, more obvious, or more important than it really is. These figures exaggerate the loss of competitiveness. to make something seem better, larger, worse etc than it really is (past participle of exaggerare , from agger )
exaggerate: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
exaggerate: To heap up; to accumulate
exaggerate: To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning
exaggerate: If you exaggerate, you indicate that something is, for example, worse or more important than it really is. He thinks I'm exaggerating Sheila admitted that she did sometimes exaggerate the demands of her job. + exaggeration exaggerations ex·ag·gera·tion Like many stories about him, it smacks of exaggeration It would be an exaggeration to call the danger urgent
an exaggeration: {n} hyperboly
an exaggeration: {n} hyperbole
exaggerate: {v} to heap up, aggravate, enlarge
An exaggeration: reacher
exaggerate: run into the ground
exaggerate: pull the long bow
exaggerate: pile it on
exaggerations: plural of exaggeration
gross exaggeration: glaring overstatement, sheer embellishment, blatant stretching of the facts
without exaggeration: being accurate, speaking realistically