Dictionary Entry
exaggerate
exaggerate is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To heap up; to accumulate. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 21 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To heap up; to accumulate.
- 2transitive verb
To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning.
- 3verb
to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
"tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
- 4verb
do something to an excessive degree
"He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups"
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