Synonym: enlarge, magnify, overdo, overstate, stretch. Similar words: exasperation, refrigerator, operate, cooperate, generate, moderate, tolerate, desperate. Meaning: [ɪg'zædʒəreɪt] v. 1. to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth 2. do something to an excessive degree.
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31. It is silly to exaggerate differences when the similarities are also significant.
32. It would be wrong, however, to exaggerate the extent of women's opposition to this benefit.
33. Reward systems often exaggerate the mismatch by offering the wrong rewards to the wrong people.
34. The recorded figures exaggerate the increase in victimization which is occurring, mainly because of a greater public propensity to report certain crimes.
35. Which therapists explicitly or implicitly exaggerate the likelihood that they will be able to help their patients make the longed-for changes?
36. In addition, other factors such as endotoxaemia, sepsis, and fever may contribute to further exaggerate these circulatory abnormalities.
37. Conversely, while pupils are expected to conform to certain role images, pupils who exaggerate these are also problematic.
38. Alternatively, respondents may exaggerate their delinquencies out of bravado, especially likely with juveniles.
39. Having exaggerated the likelihood of Labour's victory, the media are almost bound to exaggerate the significance of its defeat.
40. The antagonistic interactions tend to sharpen up some otherwise fuzzy boundaries, since they serve to exaggerate the differences.
41. The danger is that the pressure to reach target leads you to exaggerate chargeable hours.
42. I probably exaggerate the value of it, but it's precious to me.
43. The police go into classrooms and exaggerate some of the risks.
44. They tended to exaggerate grossly the role which the intelligentsia could play regardless of socio-economic developments.
45. Men are inclined to exaggerate their strengths and to rationalize their weaknesses,(http://sentencedict.com/exaggerate.html) and are not willing to accept the truth about their negative behaviors and harmful habits. Dr T.P.Chia
46. They quickly detect changes in the visual image and tend to exaggerate them.
47. In the context of de Gaulle's subsequent career, it would be difficult to exaggerate the significance of the war years.
48. Pluralists exaggerate the extent to which all groups enjoy some influence.
49. But this has led anthropologists to exaggerate the motes of racial difference and to ignore the beams of similarity.
50. Bismarck was right to distrust the cities as breeders of socialism, but wrong to exaggerate the danger.
51. None the less(sentencedict.com), it is possible to exaggerate the extent of these limitations.
52. This striping becomes synonymous with social attachment and is therefore the ideal pattern for evolution to exaggerate with contrasting colours.
53. While saying this I do not want to exaggerate the lack of adequate supplies of goodwill.
54. Her story is completely credible - she doesn't usually exaggerate.
55. Their role and importance within the deaf community, particularly in the early days, are difficult to exaggerate.
56. Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to. Sylvia Plath
57. The economic impact studies in sports most often tend to exaggerate the benefits making these reports misleading and unnecessary.
58. A constant stream of spoken advice and directions that this child is less able to comprehend will thereby exaggerate her difficulty.
59. I think, on the other hand, that it is possible to exaggerate the importance of origins.
60. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of truth.
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