exaggerate
verb (used with object)
to magnify beyond the limits of truth; overstate; represent disproportionately.
will exaggerate
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future tenseof exaggerate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Protesters will exaggerate the size and scope of their actions, while the government will attempt to downplay it.
From Fox News ● Feb. 18, 2022
As for Salah, well, no doubt some will exaggerate his bluntness here for effect.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2018
“Death will exaggerate the commercial value of your business more than winning five Grammys, 10 Oscars or 14 Golden Globes,” LaPolt said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2016
As such cases are mostly in the earlier portions of the records, this will exaggerate the long-term warming trend.
From Economist ● Oct. 19, 2011
And it happens that the less a man believes in the soul—that is to say in his conscious immortality, personal and concrete—the more he will exaggerate the worth of this poor transitory life.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
