exaggerate

Etymology

From Latin exaggeratus, past participle of exaggerare (“to heap up, increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, exaggerate”), from ex (“out, up”) + aggerare (“to heap up”), from agger (“a pile, heap, mound, dike, mole, pier, etc.”), from aggerere, adgerere (“to bring together”), from ad (“to, toward”) + gerere (“to carry”).

verb

1. To overstate, to describe more than is fact.
   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. Exaggerative; overblown.
   And in general, if it is a natural feeling, let it be, but at normal, living levels, not too exaggerate. 1901, Valentin Matcas, The Human Addictions
   Water was invading, like some loving arms, some protecting wings, but its love and care were too exaggerate, they were deadly. 2005, Daniel Marin, Megator, page 4
   You will leave [the camp] and when confronted to the smallest inconvenience you will have again these reactions that, for me, are very exaggerate. 2012, Joy Damousi, Mariano Ben Plotkin, Psychoanalysis and Politics, page 202
   From this comparison, it seems that the data in Table 7.7 are reasonable, while Ashbel's values are exaggerate. 2012, Yair Goldreich, The Climate of Israel: Observation, Research and Application, page 132