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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesexageración
Pronunciation / Transliteration: exageración
"Decir que cuesta una fortuna es una exageración."
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A statement that represents something as being larger, better, or worse than it really is.
"To say that his work revolutionized the industry is a bit of an exaggeration."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the Latin 'exaggerare', meaning 'to heap up, accumulate, or amplify', formed from 'ex-' (out, thoroughly) and 'aggerare' (to heap, from 'agger' meaning mound or heap). Over time, the meaning shifted from physically piling up materials to rhetorically magnifying or overstating facts, corresponding to the Spanish idiom 'estirar la verdad' (to stretch the truth).
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Exaggeration" is said worldwide
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exagération
Transliteration: exagération
"C'est une pure exagération."
Übertreibung
Transliteration: Übertreibung
"Das ist eine maßlose Übertreibung."
esagerazione
Transliteration: esagerazione
"La sua reazione è stata un'esagerazione."
exageración
Transliteration: exageración
"Decir que cuesta una fortuna es una exageración."
exagero
Transliteration: exagero
"Isso é um exagero completo."
अतिशयोक्ति
Transliteration: atishayokti
"यह कहना कोई अतिशयोक्ति नहीं होगी कि वह सबसे अच्छा है।"
夸张
Transliteration: kuāzhāng
"说这是灾难未免太夸张了。"
과장
Transliteration: gwajang
"그것은 명백한 과장이다."
誇張
Transliteration: kochō
"それは少し誇張しすぎだ。"
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