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exaggerating

/ɪɡˈzadʒəreɪt/

US pronunciation

American sound/ɪɡˈzadʒəreɪt/

ɪɡˈzadʒəreɪt

Syllables: 4 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final ng sound

ɪɡ - ˈzadʒəreɪt -> exaggerating

Myanmar meaning

(v[ing]) ချဲ့ကားပြောနေ

Full entry

exaggerate /Çg'zædʒǝreÇt/ v

ချဲ့ကားပြောသည်။ ပုံကြီးချဲ့သည်။ တစ်ဆိတ်ကို တစ်အိတ်လုပ်သည်။
He always exaggerates to make his stories more amusing. ❍ You're exaggerating the difficulties. ❍ It would be easy to exaggerate the importance/significance of these new laws. ❍ I'm sure he exaggerates his Irish accent.
❏ exaggerated adj
(က) ချဲ့ကားထားသော။
make greatly/wildly/grossly exaggerated claims ❍ He has an exaggerated sense of his own importance.
(ခ) ဟန်လုပ်သော။ an exaggerated laugh
❍ with exaggerated politeness.
exaggeratedly adv
❏ exaggeration /Çgzædʒǝ'reÇʃn/ n
၁။ [U] ချဲ့ကားခြင်း။ He told his story simply and without exaggeration.
၂။ [C] ချဲ့ပြောသောစကား။
It would be an exaggeration to say he knew her well — they met only two or three times.

More examples

Don’t exaggerate! It wasn’t that bad!
[greatly/grossly/wildly exaggerate something] : The paper’s political influence has been greatly exaggerated.
[exaggerate the importance/significance of something] : We should not exaggerate the importance of this agreement.

Synonyms

overstate, overstress, embellish, embroider, make a mountain out of a molehill, amplify, inflate, lay it on thick, blow out of proportion, boast, boost, brag, build up, caricature, color, cook up, corrupt, distort, emphasize, enlarge, exalt, expand, fabricate, falsify, fudge, go to extremes, heighten, hike, hyperbolize, intensify, lay on, lie, loud talk, magnify, make too much of, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, overdo, overdraw, overemphasize, overestimate, pad, pretty up, puff, put on, pyramid, romance, romanticize, scam, stretch, up

Antonyms

abridge, be modest, compress, contract, decrease, deprecate, depreciate, ignore, lessen, lower, minimize, play down, reduce, shrink, understate

Cross references

overstate overstress embellish embroider make a mountain out of a molehill amplify inflate lay it on thick blow out of proportion boast boost brag build up caricature color cook up corrupt distort emphasize enlarge exalt expand fabricate falsify fudge go to extremes heighten hike

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