Usually means: Makes something seem larger, worse.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. exaggerates: Merriam-Webster
  2. exaggerates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. exaggerates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Exaggerates, exaggerates: Wordnik
  5. exaggerates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. exaggerates: Wiktionary
  7. exaggerates: Dictionary.com
  8. exaggerates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Exaggerates: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. exaggerates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exaggerates: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (exaggerate)

▸ verb:  To overstate, to describe more than the fact.
▸ adjective:  Exaggerative; overblown.
▸ Also see exaggerate


Opposite:
understates, downplays, minimizes

Phrases:
someone who exaggerates, more...



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Opposite:
understates, downplays, minimizes

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someone who exaggerates, more...




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