英 [ɪɡˈzædʒəreɪt] 美 [ɪɡˈzædʒəreɪt]
v. 夸大，言过其实；使扩大
第三人称单数exaggerates
现在分词exaggerating
过去式exaggerated
过去分词exaggerated
exaggerate /ɪɡˈzædʒəˌreɪt/ CET4 TEM4 [ exaggerating exaggerated exaggerates ]
及物动词/不及物动词 If you exaggerate, you indicate that something is, for example, worse or more important than it really is. 夸大
He thinks I'm exaggerating.
他认为我在夸大其词。
有变体名词 夸大
Like many stories about him, it smacks of exaggeration.
像很多有关他的故事一样，这个也有点儿夸大的意味。
及物动词 If something exaggerates a situation, quality, or feature, it makes the situation, quality, or feature appear greater, more obvious, or more important than it really is. 夸大
These figures exaggerate the loss of competitiveness.
这些数字夸大了竞争力的下降。
to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery
同义词： overstate / overdraw / hyperbolize / hyerbolise / magnify / amplify
do something to an excessive degree
同义词： overdo
夸张
夸张
夸大
... [flaunt;glory;trumpet] 夸耀 [exaggerate;overstate] 夸大;言过其实 [hyperbole] 夸张法。一种修辞手段,指为了启发听者或读者的想象力和加强言语的力量,用夸大的词句来形容事物 ...
失误的表现包括夸张（Exaggerate）、遗漏（Miss）、错误（mistake）和偏见（Prejudice）；
词根 ... exact 需要,坚持要求; 精确的 exaggerate 夸大,使扩大 exasperate 激怒 ...
exaggerated 夸张的，言过其实的
exaggeratedly 夸张地
exaggeration 夸张；夸大之词；夸张的手法
exaggerated 夸张，夸大（exaggerate的过去式）
夸大；夸张
He tends to exaggerate the difficulties.
他往往夸大困难。
These figures exaggerate the loss of competitiveness.
这些数字夸大了竞争力的下降。
A painter may exaggerate or distort shapes and forms.
画家可能会夸大或扭曲形状与形式。
It's not occured to me that we shouldn't think fondly or even sort of exaggerate our past.
我也不认为,我们应该喜欢,或者甚至夸张我们的过去。
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We can exaggerate the power of Peter the Great in this vast empire that's expanding south and already expanding toward Siberia and such distant places.
彼得大帝在自己幅员辽阔的帝国享有至高权力,这是怎么夸张都不过分的,他不断地向南边扩张,版图甚至已经触及到了,西伯利亚这样的边远地区
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I don't want to exaggerate this too much but the largest riots in Britain in the eighteenth century are not the riots for political reform at all.
我不想过多地夸张,但十八世纪英国最大的暴乱,完全不是关于政治改革
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Hyping your company is not just a natural tendency to exaggerate your size and importance.
We tend to exaggerate our differences and become extremely used to our own set of biases.
The importance of wine to this nation of four million is hard to exaggerate.