Exaggeration

Definition

exaggerate /Çg'zædʒǝreÇt/ v ခ်ဲ႕ကားေျပာသည္။ ပံုႀကီးခ်ဲ႕သည္။ တစ္ဆိတ္ကို တစ္အိတ္လုပ္သည္။ 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) ခ်ဲ႕ကားထားေသာ။ make greatly/wildly/grossly exaggerated claims ❍ He has an exaggerated sense of his own importance. (ခ) ဟန္လုပ္ေသာ။ an exaggerated laugh ❍ with exaggerated politeness. exaggeratedly adv ❏ exaggeration /Çgzædʒǝ'reÇʃn/ n ၁။ [U] ခ်ဲ႕ကားျခင္း။ He told his story simply and without exaggeration. ၂။ [C] ခ်ဲ႕ေျပာေသာစကား။ It would be an exaggeration to say he knew her well — they met only two or three times.

Examples

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