Crossword-Solution: EXAGGERATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Exaggerate | v. t. | To heap up; to accumulate. |
| Exaggerate | v. t. | To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning. |
We have 62 clues for the answer “EXAGGERATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Caricature, by definition | 1 answer |
| Draw like a caricaturist | 1 answer |
| Emulate Baron Munchausen | 1 answer |
| MAKE unsupported assertions | 1 answer |
| Shady politician's credo, part 1 | 1 answer |
| to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | 2 answers |
| Hyperbolize | 2 answers |
| STRETCH the truth | 5 answers |
| overestimate | 6 answers |
| romanticise | 6 answers |
| overrate | 9 answers |
| maximise | 9 answers |
| Idealise | 10 answers |
| ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN, THE (FILM) DIRECTOR | 10 answers |
| Overstate | 12 answers |
| Emote | 17 answers |
| MAKE mountain out of molehill | 18 answers |
| Overact | 21 answers |
| Romance | 26 answers |
| Embroider | 26 answers |
| aggrandise | 26 answers |
| Excel | 31 answers |
| Dress ( up ) | 32 answers |
| dramatise | 32 answers |
| amplify | 33 answers |
| Overplay | 34 answers |
| Gasconade | 36 answers |
| Embellish | 36 answers |
| Enhance | 37 answers |
| Act like | 37 answers |
| Inflate | 39 answers |
| Boast | 40 answers |
| fill out | 40 answers |
| ADD to | 41 answers |
| Heighten | 41 answers |
| Pad | 44 answers |
| Blow up. | 49 answers |
| Magnify | 49 answers |
| Enlarge | 51 answers |
| Fudge | 53 answers |
| Decorate | 55 answers |
| Glorify | 56 answers |
| Stretch | 56 answers |
| ENCOURAGE sale of | 58 answers |
| Aggravate | 58 answers |
| Exceed | 59 answers |
| overdo | 59 answers |
| Expand | 59 answers |
| Mock | 63 answers |
| Fatten | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EXAGGERATE (5)
But we perhaps exaggerate the gray or sable tinge, which undoubtedly characterized the mood and manners of the age.
Think of me at this hour, in a strange place, labouring under a blackness of distress that no fancy can exaggerate, and yet well aware that, if you will but punctually serve me, my troubles will roll away like a story that is told.
The mass communications media tended to exaggerate the amount of damage done and also conjured up visions, in the mind of white America, of organized black gangs deliberately and systematically attacking white people.
But there is this to be said: In the first place, I fancy you exaggerate; you lend me qualities I haven’t had.
Thackenbury, though her air of protest sounded a bit forced; “I should feel rather a worm for doing such a thing.” “You exaggerate the power of upheaval which a worm would be able to bring into play in the limited time available,” said Clovis; “if you put in a strenuous ten minutes with a really useful fork, the result ought to suggest the operations of an unusually masterful mole or a badger in a hurry.” “They might guess I had done it,” said Mrs.
Quotes with EXAGGERATE (3)
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.
my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be...
To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1987–2019).