Usually means: Overstating something beyond the truth.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. exaggeration: Merriam-Webster
  2. exaggeration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exaggeration: Collins English Dictionary
  4. exaggeration: Vocabulary.com
  5. Exaggeration, exaggeration: Wordnik
  6. exaggeration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. exaggeration: Wiktionary
  8. exaggeration: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. exaggeration: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Exaggeration, exaggeration: Dictionary.com
  11. exaggeration: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Exaggeration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Exaggeration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. exaggeration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. exaggeration: Rhymezone
  16. exaggeration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. exaggeration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. exaggeration: FreeDictionary.org
  19. exaggeration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. exaggeration: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. exaggeration: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Exaggeration: Encyclopedia

(Note: See exaggerate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The act of heaping or piling up.
noun:  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.
noun:  A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.

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