exaggerate

C1 CET-4 Oxf 5000 大学 FREQ #10419 ★★☆☆☆

v. 夸大, 夸张

发音

其它 /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/

词形变化

exaggerated exaggerates 三单 exaggerates exaggeratest exaggerating exaggerating 现在分词 exaggerated 过去式 exaggerated 过去分词 more exaggerate 比较级 most exaggerate 最高级

别名

exagerate exaggregate

教材释义与例句

动词

使扩大；使增大

动词

夸大；夸张

释义与例句

v. C1 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    To overstate, to describe more than the fact.

    夸大

    夸张

    I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate!

    He said he’d slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he’s exaggerating. The real number is about ten.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Exaggerative; overblown.

词汇关系

动词

同义词 7

overdo amplify magnify overstate hyperbolise hyperbolize overdraw

上位词 4

do make mislead misinform

下位词 10

blow gas pad brag boast lard tout embellish embroider bluster

词源

Borrowed from Latin exaggerātus, perfect passive participle of exaggerō (“to heap up, increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, exaggerate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex- (“out, up”) + aggerō, aggerāre (“to heap up”), from agger (“a pile, heap, mound, dike, mole, pier, etc.”), from aggerō, aggerere (“to bear, carry to (some place), bring together”), from ad- (“to, toward”) + gerō (“to carry”).

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