mid 16th cent.: from Latin exaggerat-heaped up, from the verb exaggerare, from ex-thoroughly + aggerareheap up (from aggerheap). The word originally meant pile up, accumulate , later intensify praise or blame, dwell on a virtue or fault, giving rise to current senses
英英釋義網(wǎng)絡(luò)釋義
vern
1.to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth;
tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery
2.do something to an excessive degree;
He overdid it last night when he did 100 push-ups
-exaggerate
1 . 夸大
...suggest vt. 1. 建議,提出 2. 使想起來,暗示exaggeratev. 夸張,夸大gesture n. 姿勢,手勢;vi.做手勢