exaggerating
present participle ofexaggerate
| 单词 | exaggerating |
| 释义 | exaggerating present participle ofexaggerate exaggerate verb[IorT] uk/ɪɡˈzædʒ.ə.reɪt/us/ɪɡˈzædʒ.ə.reɪt/C1 to make somethingseemlarger, moreimportant,better, orworsethan it really is: Thethreatofattackhas beengreatlyexaggerated. Don't exaggerate - it wasn't thatexpensive. I'm not exaggerating - it was theworstmealI'veevereatenin mylife. Synonyms emphasize foreground highlight overplay overstate spotlight Opposites downplay minimize understate
Exaggerating & playing down
Examplesofexaggeratingexaggerating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. By aping the discourse of nineteenth-century materialistic science, it acted out its hidden tensions,exaggeratingthem into unresolvable paradoxes. From theCambridge English Corpus Byexaggeratingthe basis for discretion, one increases power. From theCambridge English Corpus His arguments defy collegial courtesy,exaggeratingthe trivial and making distorted or erroneous assertions. From theCambridge English Corpus The extent to which legal systems have been integrated is discussed, but all of this is done withoutexaggeratingthe extent of integration. From theCambridge English Corpus Sometimes this kind of campaigning involves a wilful misreading of stories in the international press,exaggeratingtheir criticisms of domestic politics. From theCambridge English Corpus There would be no point inexaggeratingthis. From theCambridge English Corpus Patients' individual behavior varies; patientsexaggeratingtheir symptoms can progress faster in a queue. From theCambridge English Corpus Making this claim frequently involvesexaggeratingthe traits of the commercially dominant form. From theCambridge English Corpus Seditious words cases cannot all be regarded as drunken indiscretions or developments of private feuds, with witnessesexaggeratingor fabricating evidence. From theCambridge English Corpus Read through a book slowly,exaggeratingthe rhyming words. From theCambridge English Corpus We believe that this objection amounts to both underestimating a priori the power of associative mechanisms andexaggeratingthe actual accuracy of people-performance. From theCambridge English Corpus In addition,exaggeratingthe ver tical component offered image information that was difficult to extract otherwise. From theCambridge English Corpus I'mexaggeratingword-wise, but not with my feelings. From theCambridge English Corpus In the impaired model, the overall strength of the phonological representations was weakened,exaggeratingthe disadvantage of word final stops and fricatives. From theCambridge English Corpus For clarity the radial scale is 10 x the axial scale, thereby grosslyexaggeratingthe actual core displacement. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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