English-Finnish translations for exaggerate

• liioitella
  Väärinkäytöksiä ei pidä liioitella. The issue of abuse must not be exaggerated.
  Eroja ei saa kuitenkaan liioitella. But let us not exaggerate the discrepancies.
  Tämän merkitystä voidaan tuskin liioitella. The importance of this can hardly be exaggerated.
• suurennella
  suurennella saavutuksiaan

Definition of exaggerate

• To overstate, to describe more than is fact

Examples

• Ive told you a billion times not to exaggerate!
• He said hed slept with hundreds of girls, but I know hes exaggerating. The real number is about ten

Related words

• exaggerated
• exaggeratedly
• unexaggerated
• overexaggerate
• to exaggerate