exaggerate
verb[IorT]
uk/ɪɡˈzædʒ.ə.reɪt/us/ɪɡˈzædʒ.ə.reɪt/C1
to make somethingseemlarger, moreimportant,better, orworsethan it really is:
夸张;夸大;对…言过其实Thethreatofattackhas beengreatlyexaggerated.遭受袭击的威胁被过分夸大了。
Don't exaggerate - it wasn't thatexpensive.不要言过其实——没有那么贵。
I'm not exaggerating - it was theworstmealI'veevereatenin mylife.我不是在夸大其词——那是我这辈子吃到的最难以下咽的饭了。
Synonyms
emphasize
foreground
highlight
overplay
overstate
spotlight
Opposites
downplay
minimize
understate
- You shouldn'tbelieveeverything she says - she doestendto exaggerate.
- Theministersuggestedthat someleadingenvironmentalistswere exaggerating theissuessomewhat.
- She was abitannoyed, but she wasn'tfurious- don't exaggerate.
- I don'tthinkit would be exaggerating to say that the composer's newworkis amasterpiece.
- He has exaggerated thewholeeventto make itsoundrathermoredramaticthan itactuallywas.
Exaggerating & playing down
- bloviate
- blowsomethingout of proportionidiom
- cartoonish
- catastrophize
- dramatization
- dramatize
- minimize
- OTT
- over-egg
- overboard
- overdramatic
- overdramatize
- overembellish
- overplay
- overstatement
- pile
- proportion
- protest too muchidiom
- stretch the truthidiom
- understate