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- verb To
exaggerate , tooverstate excessively.
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Examples
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And that bit about Rumsfeld and the Pentagon exaggerating -- he didn't even say "overexaggerate" -- the numbers of Iraqi troops that have been trained and equipped -- damn powerful.
David Corn: Bush's Stunning, Surprising, Full-of-News Speech on Iraq 2008
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Mr. Coleman goes on to overexaggerate when he says, "More people are going to be killed by this health care legislation than this bonfire."
Tea Party organizer vows to burn Pelosi and Perriello in effigy 2009
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One interesting aspect of these largely forgotten TV movies, is that many seemingly normal folks that actually do recall them, simply overexaggerate their relative worth.
How NOT to do a Superhero Movie: Captain America (1979) Chuck Wells 2009
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Just face it, not only do you greatly overexaggerate the problem at hand, but you offer no reasonable solutions.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Retrospective on the Iranian Hostage Crisis 2009
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One interesting aspect of these largely forgotten TV movies, is that many seemingly normal folks that actually do recall them, simply overexaggerate their relative worth.
Archive 2009-08-01 Chuck Wells 2009
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So I think what we see here is a combination of some tensions in some areas, I don't want to overexaggerate that.
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Certainly, the nature of this business, the nature of television, we could overexaggerate based on the images, and they might just be a tiny, tiny overall number.
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I caution all those watching and reading American media so as not to overexaggerate the true situation.
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Judy Woodruff, as we try to assess the impact of tonight, big - picture impact, can we overexaggerate these wins that John Kerry is getting?
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WARNING: At some point in using this to be funny, you will overexaggerate so that the person focuses too much on your example and misses the humor.
How To Be Funny JON MACKS 2003
elgiad007 commented on the word overexaggerate
See redundant.
November 7, 2008