Antonyms for exaggerate

Grammar : Verb

Spell : ig-zaj-uh-reyt

Phonetic Transcription : ɪgˈzædʒ əˌreɪt

Definition of exaggerate

Origin : 1530s, "to pile up, accumulate," from Latin exaggeratus, past participle of exaggerare "heighten, amplify, magnify," literally "to heap, pile, load, fill," from ex- "thoroughly" (see ex-) + aggerare "heap up," from agger (genitive aggeris) "heap," from aggerere "bring together, carry toward," from ad- "to, toward" + gerere "carry" (see gest). Sense of "overstate" first recorded in English 1560s. Related: Exaggerated; exaggerating.

verb overstate, embellish

Example sentences :

His pessimism about his play caused him to exaggerate the enormity of his offences.
Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine

For to exaggerate with judgment one must begin by measuring with nicety.
Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad

I do not exaggerate when I say that from end to end could not be discerned a single weed.
Extract from : « In the Heart of Vosges » by Matilda Betham-Edwards

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton

I will not be so superfluous as to exaggerate the difficulty.
Extract from : « Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics » by William Thomas Thornton

I believe I had as much right to exaggerate in peddling as I had in writing verse.
Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani

We would not exaggerate the importance of these little children or their cause.
Extract from : « Lotus Buds » by Amy Carmichael

It is of course easy to exaggerate the influence of sentiment in the case.
Extract from : « Benjamin Franklin » by Paul Elmer More

It was impossible to exaggerate the scorn which her voice imported into the word.
Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic

This is an indispensable operation but we must not exaggerate its scope.
Extract from : « Introduction to the Study of History » by Charles V. Langlois

Synonyms for exaggerate

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