词汇 | exaggerate |
释义 | exaggerate verb[ I or T ] uk /ɪɡˈzædʒ.ə.reɪt/ us /ɪɡˈzædʒ.ə.reɪt/ C1 to make something seem larger, more important, better, or worse than it really is: 夸大;过分渲染 be greatly exaggeratedThe threat of attack has been greatly exaggerated.遭受袭击的威胁被过分夸大了。 Don't exaggerate - it wasn't that expensive.不要言过其实——没有那么贵。 I'm not exaggerating - it was the worst meal I've ever eaten in my life.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't believe everything she says - she does tend to exaggerate. The minister suggested that some leading environmentalists were exaggerating the issues somewhat. She was a bit annoyed, but she wasn't furious - don't exaggerate. I don't think it would be exaggerating to say that the composer's new work is a masterpiece. He has exaggerated the whole event to make it sound rather more dramatic than it actually was. Exaggerating & playing down bloviate blow something out of proportionidiom cartoonish cartoonishly catastrophize fulsome go overboardidiom grandiloquent inflated make a mountain out of a molehillidiom make little of somethingidiom make much of somethingidiom make something of something/someone meal mildly minimization overrated protest too muchidiom underplay underrate Related wordsexaggerated exaggeratedly exaggerate | American Dictionaryexaggerate verb[ I/T ] us/ɪɡˈzædʒ·əˌreɪt/ to make something seem larger, more important, better, or worse than it really is: [ T ]The media exaggerate the risks and benefits of research findings. [ I ]I don’t want to exaggerate, but it was a dangerous situation. exaggerationnoun[ C/U ]us/ɪɡˌzædʒ·əˈreɪ·ʃən/ [ U ]It is no exaggeration to say that she saved my life. Examples of exaggerateexaggerate The tests would therefore exaggerate the importance of the differences. The sharp spectral roll-off in this range exaggerates the ordinal error for a fixed abscissa. A woman who removed the device may not admit it or report it as an expulsion; she may exaggerate the seriousness of a side effect. They either invented whole new syndromes or exaggerated a few common symptoms to build fatal diseases out of minor distempers. Accordingly, the so-called ' red peril ' was exaggerated to the utmost. The progressive rock fanzine seems particularly amenable to the method, but is this to exaggerate its uniqueness? This is a partial picture though, and tends to exaggerate the proportion of rural migrants who settled in urban areas. The defendant healthcare professionals contended that the families greatly exaggerated both the severity of the patients' pain and the professional unresponsiveness to it. This contains an element of truth but is exaggerated. By aping the discourse of nineteenth-century materialistic science, it acted out its hidden tensions, exaggerating them into unresolvable paradoxes. The extraordinary stories that he invents or that he reports when he describes cities and regions are part of this tendency to exaggerate. They tended to exaggerate the novelty of the occasion or, at least, the aspects that distinguished it from those accorded to their colleagues. But a brief foray into prison literature suggests to me that the conceptual difficulties can easily be exaggerated. To say the signs of critical thinking, writing, or reading mean that students are assured of political and material empowerment is to exaggerate matters. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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