exaggerate: [16] Something that is exaggerated is literally ‘piled up’ out of all due proportion; indeed that is what it originally meant in English: ‘With their flipping and flapping up and down in the dirt they exaggerate a mountain of mire’, Philip Stubbes, Anatomy of Abuses 1583. It was not really until the 17th century that the current sense ‘overemphasize’ came to the fore, although it was already present in the word’s Latin original. This was exaggerāre, a compound formed from the intensive prefix exand aggerāre ‘pile up’ (a derivative of agger ‘heap’).
exaggerate (v.)
1530s, "to pile up, accumulate," from Latin exaggeratus, past participle of exaggerare "heighten, amplify, magnify," literally "to heap, pile, load, fill," from ex- "thoroughly" (see ex-) + aggerare "heap up, accumulate," figuratively "amplify, magnify," from agger (genitive aggeris) "heap," from aggerere "bring together, carry toward," from assimilated form of ad- "to, toward" (see ad-) + gerere "carry" (see gest). Sense of "overstate" first recorded in English 1560s. Related: Exaggerated; exaggerating.
例文
1. There could be more unrest,but I wouldn 't exaggerate the problems.
はもっと動揺するかもしれませんが、問題を誇張する必要はないと思います。
2.A painter may exaggerate or distort shapes and forms.
画家は線や形を誇張したりねじったりする可能性があります。
3.These figures exaggerate the loss of competiveness.
これらの数字は競争力の喪失を誇張している。
4.Don 't exaggerate .
誇張するな。
5.This chap likes to exaggerate and is good at nothing but boasting.