exaggerate

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• /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/
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Borrowed from Latin exaggerātus, perfect passive participle of exaggerō (“to heap up, increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, exaggerate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex- (“out, up”) + aggerō, aggerāre (“to heap up”), from agger (“a pile, heap, mound, dike, mole, pier, etc.”), from aggerō, aggerere (“to bear, carry to (some place), bring together”), from ad- (“to, toward”) + gerō (“to carry”).

69 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: zmadhoj — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Albanian: teproj — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Arabic: بَالَغَ (bālaḡa) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Azerbaijani: şişirtmək — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Azerbaijani: mübaliğə etmək — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Bashkir: арттырыу (arttırıw) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Bulgarian: преувеличавам (preuveličavam) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Catalan: exagerar — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Chinese Mandarin: 誇大 /夸大 (kuādà) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Chinese Mandarin: 誇張 /夸张 (kuāzhāng) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Czech: přehánět — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Danish: overdrive — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Dutch: overdrijven — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Esperanto: troigi — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Finnish: liioitella — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• French: exagérer — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• French: outrer — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Galician: esaxerar — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Georgian: გადაჭარბება (gadač̣arbeba) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Georgian: გაზვიადება (gazviadeba) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• German: aufpeitschen — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• German: übertreiben — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Greek: υπερβάλλω (ypervállo) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Greek: παραφουσκώνω (parafouskóno) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Greek: μεγαλοποιώ (megalopoió) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Greek: παρακάνω (parakáno) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Hawaiian: hoʻonui ʻōlelo — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Hebrew: הגזים (higzím) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Hungarian: túloz — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Hungarian: eltúloz — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Icelandic: ýkja — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Icelandic: yfirdrífa — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Indonesian: membesar-besarkan — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Indonesian: melebih-lebihkan — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Italian: esagerare — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Ivatan: mapanatun — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Japanese: 誇張する (kochō suru) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Japanese: 大袈裟に言う (ōgesa ni iu) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Korean: 과대시하다 (gwadaesi-hada) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Korean: 과장하다 (gwajang-hada) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Latin: verbīs augeō — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Lun Bawang: mefoot — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Macedonian: преувеличува (preuveličuva) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Māori: tahupera — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Māori: whakamōmona kōrero — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Māori: hau pirau — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Norwegian: overdrive — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Norwegian Bokmål: overdrive — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Norwegian Bokmål: ta i — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Persian: گزاف گفتن (gazâf goftan) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Persian: اغراق کردن (eġrâq kardan) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Polish: wyolbrzymiać — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Polish: przesadzać — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Portuguese: exagerar — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Quechua: anchachay — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Romanian: exagera — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Russian: преувели́чивать (preuvelíčivatʹ) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Russian: преувели́чить (preuvelíčitʹ) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Russian: утри́ровать (utrírovatʹ) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Spanish: exagerar — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Swedish: överdriva — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Swedish: ta i — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Tagalog: magpalaki — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Tagalog: palakihin — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Turkish: abartmak — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Turkish: mübalağa etmek — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Ukrainian: перебі́льшувати (perebílʹšuvaty) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Ukrainian: перебі́льшити (perebílʹšyty) — to overstate, to describe more than is fact
• Volapük: tuükön — to overstate, to describe more than is fact