exaggerate
英検2級・大学受験誇張する、誇張する。名exaggeration
意味
- …を誇張する,大げさに言う(考える)
- 誇張する,大げさに言う
例文
I've told you a million times not to exaggerate.
誇張はやめなさいって100万回言ったでしょ。
You have a habit of exaggerating everything.
お前は何でも針小棒大に言う悪い癖がある。
It seems to me that she has a tendency to exaggerate.
彼女には誇張癖があるようだ。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
Borrowed from Latin exaggerātus, perfect passive participle of exaggerō (“to heap up, increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, exaggerate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex- (“out, up”) + aggerō, aggerāre (“to heap up”), from agger (“a pile, heap, mound, dike, mole, pier, etc.”), from aggerō, aggerere (“to bear, carry to (some place), bring together”), from ad- (“to, toward”) + gerō (“to carry”).