exaggerate

• vt. 使擴大；使增大
• vi. 夸大；夸張

ex-, 向外。ag-,向。-ger, 攜帶，帶來，詞源同gesture,belligerent.

exaggerate

exaggerate: [16] Something that is exaggerated is literally ‘piled up’ out of all due proportion; indeed that is what it originally meant in English: ‘With their flipping and flapping up and down in the dirt they exaggerate a mountain of mire’, Philip Stubbes, Anatomy of Abuses 1583. It was not really until the 17th century that the current sense ‘overemphasize’ came to the fore, although it was already present in the word’s Latin original. This was exaggerāre, a compound formed from the intensive prefix exand aggerāre ‘pile up’ (a derivative of agger ‘heap’).

exaggerate (v.)

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, accumulate," figuratively "amplify, magnify," from agger (genitive aggeris) "heap," from aggerere "bring together, carry toward," from assimilated form of ad- "to, toward" (see ad-) + gerere "carry" (see gest). Sense of "overstate" first recorded in English 1560s. Related: Exaggerated; exaggerating.

1. There could be more unrest, but I wouldn't exaggerate the problems.

可能會有更大的動蕩，不過我想也不必夸大問題。

來自柯林斯例句

2. A painter may exaggerate or distort shapes and forms.

畫家可能會對線條和形狀進行夸大或扭曲。

來自柯林斯例句

3. These figures exaggerate the loss of competitiveness.

這些數字夸大了競爭力的喪失。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Don't exaggerate.

別夸張。

來自柯林斯例句

5. This chap likes to exaggerate and is good at nothing but boasting.

這個人言過其實,就會吹牛皮放大炮.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》