Exaggerate

To exaggerate means to make something sound bigger, better, or more exciting than it really is, like saying a fish you caught was as big as a car!

Examples

• Sometimes, when I tell my friends about my soccer games, I tend to exaggerate how many goals I scored to make the story more exciting.
• In history class, we learned that some people exaggerate the events of the past to make them seem more dramatic than they really were.
• During the science fair, my teammate tried to exaggerate the results of our experiment, but I reminded him that honesty is more important than trying to impress the judges.

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