The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exaggerating \Ex*ag"ger*a`ting\a. That exaggerates; enlarging beyond bounds. -- Ex*ag"ger*a`ting*ly, adv.
Exaggerate \Ex*ag"ger*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exaggerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Exaggerating . ] [L. exaggeratus, p. p. of exaggerare to heap up; ex out + aggerare to heap up, fr. agger heap, aggerere to bring to; ad to + gerere to bear. See Jest. ]
To heap up; to accumulate. [Obs.] ``Earth exaggerated upon them [oaks and firs].''
--Sir M. Hale.-
To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; to delineate extravagantly; to overstate the truth concerning.
A friend exaggerates a man's virtues.
--Addison.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of exaggerate English)
Usage examples of "exaggerating".
She might be exaggerating to soothe her pride, but Mary did not believe it.
She watched the canopy up the brightness, exaggerating the incoming light until they could see the starlight on the North Waste Land, the great long streaks of coloured sands and outcrop rocks, silvery ghosts, coming closer all the time.
What are the origin and history of the specific thoughts involved in exaggerating a threat?
Bonneval, somewhat exaggerating the danger I had run in trying to raise the veil of the handsome daughter of Scio.
I related the whole affair to the bishop, exaggerating the uproar, making much of the injustice of such proceedings, and railing at a vexatious police daring to molest travellers and to insult the sacred rights of individuals and nations.
I spoke to the masters of all of them, exaggerating considerably the injury that had been done to me.