verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
greatly
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Consider the death of Amtrak, to paraphrase Mark Twain, to be greatly exaggerated .
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Its position is similar to that of Mark Twain: reports of its death would be greatly exaggerated .
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All of these pressures are greatly exaggerated in the new lifestyles shown on the electronic media.
grossly
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The Mercator projection gives a popular, rectilinear picture of the Earth's surface but grossly exaggerates dimensions near the poles.
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It grossly exaggerates the amount of subjective culpability.
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They tended to exaggerate grossly the role which the intelligentsia could play regardless of socio-economic developments.
when
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I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon.
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I am not exaggerating when I say that this flood is eroding academic intellectual life.
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She had not exaggerated when she'd said she felt weary.
wildly
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Had she not wildly exaggerated the significance of the advertisement?
■ NOUN
danger
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Bismarck was right to distrust the cities as breeders of socialism, but wrong to exaggerate the danger .
difference
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It is silly to exaggerate differences when the similarities are also significant.
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The antagonistic interactions tend to sharpen up some otherwise fuzzy boundaries, since they serve to exaggerate the differences .
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Space may well exaggerate such differences .
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Traditional theories of autonomous man have exaggerated species differences .
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This all simply helped to exaggerate the differences that always existed between Charman and the three other members.
extent
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Pluralists exaggerate the extent to which all groups enjoy some influence.
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But the model he develops tends to distort the past in order to exaggerate the extent of change.
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None the less, it is possible to exaggerate the extent of these limitations.
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In both cases it is important not to exaggerate the extent to which it has been implemented.
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It would be wrong, however, to exaggerate the extent of women's opposition to this benefit.
importance
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I think, on the other hand, that it is possible to exaggerate the importance of origins.
problem
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She had not yet learned how greatly Brian exaggerated his financial problems in order to keep her in line.
significance
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It is not easy to exaggerate their significance .
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Having exaggerated the likelihood of Labour's victory, the media are almost bound to exaggerate the significance of its defeat.
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In the context of de Gaulle's subsequent career, it would be difficult to exaggerate the significance of the war years.
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The tendency of second homes to be clustered in specific pleasant rural locations is probably the characteristic that exaggerates their significance .
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It is impossible to exaggerate the revolutionary significance of the recognition of a binding judicial tribunal external to the realm.
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Had she not wildly exaggerated the significance of the advertisement?
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One should not exaggerate the significance of the change.
■ VERB
tend
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They tended to exaggerate grossly the role which the intelligentsia could play regardless of socio-economic developments.
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They quickly detect changes in the visual image and tend to exaggerate them.
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The economic impact studies in sports most often tend to exaggerate the benefits making these reports misleading and unnecessary.
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The press tends to exaggerate the disagreements, and is over-eager to look for administration turf wars.
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Shine draws the attention and tends to exaggerate .
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Winter tends to exaggerate virtue and vice.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"He said you walked 30 miles." "No - he's exaggerating. It was only about 15."
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Hanley didn't exaggerate when he said Geary was the best basketball player the team ever had.
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Newspapers tend to exaggerate their influence on the way people vote.
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Rob said he caught a 20-pound fish, but I think he was exaggerating.
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The grass in the garden was about three feet high - I'm not exaggerating.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In addition, other factors such as endotoxaemia, sepsis, and fever may contribute to further exaggerate these circulatory abnormalities.
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It is important not to exaggerate this emphasis.
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Meanwhile, his behavior became even more exaggerated.
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Reward systems often exaggerate the mismatch by offering the wrong rewards to the wrong people.
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The Communists vastly exaggerated their own Resistance role in order to attract postwar political support.
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The police go into classrooms and exaggerate some of the risks.