English words for 'Emphasizes or exaggerates the element of a situation'
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adj
noun
- The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth, reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.
- extravagant exaggeration
- A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
- The act of heaping or piling up.
- the act of making something more noticeable than usual
- making to seem more important than it really is
adj
noun
- The sport of gymnastics and dance routines performed on horseback, and on the longe line.
- A vaulted structure; such structures treated as a group.
- The practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction.
- (architecture) a vaulted structure
- a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down
verb
noun
- (figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.
- An act or instance of making something larger.
- Diffuseness of speech or writing; a speaking at length.
- An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
- a photographic print that has been enlarged
- the state of being enlarged
- a discussion that provides additional information
- the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
adj
- Using hyperbole: exaggerated.
- (color theory) Of a perceived color, having a saturation exceeding 100%.
- Of or relating to hyperbole.
- (topology) Of, pertaining to, or in a hyperbolic space (a space having negative curvature or sectional curvature).
- (mathematics, of a metric space or a geometry) Having negative curvature or sectional curvature.
- (geometry, topology, of an automorphism) Whose domain has two (possibly ideal) fixed points joined by a line mapped to itself by translation.
- Indicates that the specified function is a hyperbolic function rather than a trigonometric function.
- Of or pertaining to a hyperbola.
- enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness
- of or relating to a hyperbola
verb
- (transitive) To exaggerate the significance of something.
- (intransitive, music) Of a wind instrument, to move from its lower to its higher register.
- (transitive) To blow over or across.
- (transitive) To cover with blossoms or flowers.
- (transitive) To blow away; dissipate by or as by wind.
- (transitive, music) To blow a wind instrument (typically a whistle, recorder or flute) hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.
noun
- (figurative) A situation confusing for its false appearances, especially when they are compounded upon one another.
- (video games, uncountable) A glitch in some three-dimensional games where a missing texture prevents part of the scene from being rendered correctly, causing a trail of previously rendered frames to appear instead.
- A carnival attraction with curved mirrors (funhouse mirrors) that distort the viewer's appearance.
verb
noun
- a licensed amateur radio operator
- meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
- an unskilled actor who overacts
- (uncountable) Meat from the thigh and/or buttock of a hog cured for food.
- (countable) A thigh and/or buttock of a hog slaughtered for meat; (occasionally) the corresponding cut from some other animal.
- (radio) An amateur radio operator.
- The back of the thigh of humans or certain other animals.
- (anatomy) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
- (Internet, informal, uncommon) Electronic mail that is wanted; email that is not spam or junk mail.
- (acting) An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.
verb
- exaggerate one's acting
- (transitive, music) To play (a song or record) too frequently, often to the point of causing weariness and annoyance.
- (transitive, golf) To accidentally hit (one's golf ball) beyond "the green".
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To overestimate one's strength in a game or event, which ultimately may end in a defeat.
- (ambitransitive, acting) To overdo or overact one's effect or role.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
- (transitive) To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
- (transitive, figuratively) To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
- (transitive) To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
- (intransitive) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
- (transitive) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
- catch fire
- cause to start burning
- cause inflammation in
- become inflamed; get sore
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
verb
- To give the appearance of, or make a show of, (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude.
- To assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to posture, to posturize; also, to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses.
- To cause (someone or something) to assume an attitude or pose; to pose, to posture.
- (figurative) To create art, speak, or write in a manner which assumes affected, exaggerated, or unnatural attitudes.
- assume certain affected attitudes
noun
- Exaggerated representation.
- The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
- An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
- (informal) Provocation, irritation, annoyance.
- an exasperated feeling of annoyance
- unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment
- action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse
verb
adj
noun
- A grotesque misrepresentation.
- A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.
- (computing) In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look less like the average face, and thus more distinctive.
- a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
adj
- avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis)
- being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something
- without interpretation or embellishment
- limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text
- (theology, specifically) Following the historical-grammatical method of biblical interpretation.
- (proscribed) Used nonliterally as an intensifier. See literally for usage notes.
- Actual, real, physical.
- Exactly as stated; read or understood without interpretation; according to the letter; not figurative or metaphorical; following the letter or exact words; not taking liberties; etymonic rather than idiomatic.
- (uncommon) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters (of an alphabet); using literation.
- (loosely) That which generally assumes that the plainest reading of a given text is correct but which allows for metaphor where context indicates it.
- (of a person) Unimaginative; matter-of-fact; literal-minded.
- Misspelling of littoral.
noun
- a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
- (epigraphy, typography) A misprint (or occasionally a scribal error) that affects a letter.
- (logic) A propositional variable, or the negation of a propositional variable. ᵂᵖ
- (programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.
- Misspelling of littoral.
verb
- (figurative, transitive) To represent something as being more important, better, or worse than it actually is; to exaggerate.
- (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
- (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.
- (figurative) To swell; to puff up.
- (intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).
- become inflated
- cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit
- increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value
- fill with gas or air
- exaggerate or make bigger
verb
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- lie down comfortably
noun
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
adj
verb
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify, exaggerate.
- (transitive) To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).
- (transitive) To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) larger or more important.
- make large
- to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
- increase in size, volume or significance
verb
noun
- A cocktail made from a spirit plus soda water etc.
- (rail transport, US) An all clear or full speed ahead signal.
- Clipping of highball glass, a tall glass tumbler used for serving highballs.
- (climbing) A very high bouldering problem, often with a hard landing.
- a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass
verb
- (transitive) To misrepresent (something) by oversimplifying a summary of its essence.
- (transitive) To misrepresent (a characteristic of something) by falsely portraying it as essential to the whole (that is, implying that it defines the whole's essence).
- (transitive) To reduce (something) to its essence.
adj
- (informal) Tending to exaggerate in order to get attention.
- Of or relating to the drama.
- Striking in appearance or effect.
- Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.
- sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect
- suitable to or characteristic of drama
- pertaining to or characteristic of drama
- used of a singer or singing voice that is marked by power and expressiveness and a histrionic or theatrical style
noun
- The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth, reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.
- extravagant exaggeration
- A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
- The act of heaping or piling up.
- the act of making something more noticeable than usual
- making to seem more important than it really is
noun
- (figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.
- An act or instance of making something larger.
- Diffuseness of speech or writing; a speaking at length.
- An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
- a photographic print that has been enlarged
- the state of being enlarged
- a discussion that provides additional information
- the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
noun
- (figurative) A situation confusing for its false appearances, especially when they are compounded upon one another.
- (video games, uncountable) A glitch in some three-dimensional games where a missing texture prevents part of the scene from being rendered correctly, causing a trail of previously rendered frames to appear instead.
- A carnival attraction with curved mirrors (funhouse mirrors) that distort the viewer's appearance.
noun
- Exaggerated representation.
- The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
- An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
- (informal) Provocation, irritation, annoyance.
- an exasperated feeling of annoyance
- unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment
- action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse
verb
- (transitive) To exaggerate the significance of something.
- (intransitive, music) Of a wind instrument, to move from its lower to its higher register.
- (transitive) To blow over or across.
- (transitive) To cover with blossoms or flowers.
- (transitive) To blow away; dissipate by or as by wind.
- (transitive, music) To blow a wind instrument (typically a whistle, recorder or flute) hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.
verb
noun
- a licensed amateur radio operator
- meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
- an unskilled actor who overacts
- (uncountable) Meat from the thigh and/or buttock of a hog cured for food.
- (countable) A thigh and/or buttock of a hog slaughtered for meat; (occasionally) the corresponding cut from some other animal.
- (radio) An amateur radio operator.
- The back of the thigh of humans or certain other animals.
- (anatomy) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
- (Internet, informal, uncommon) Electronic mail that is wanted; email that is not spam or junk mail.
- (acting) An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.
verb
- exaggerate one's acting
- (transitive, music) To play (a song or record) too frequently, often to the point of causing weariness and annoyance.
- (transitive, golf) To accidentally hit (one's golf ball) beyond "the green".
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To overestimate one's strength in a game or event, which ultimately may end in a defeat.
- (ambitransitive, acting) To overdo or overact one's effect or role.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
- (transitive) To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
- (transitive, figuratively) To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
- (transitive) To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
- (intransitive) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
- (transitive) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
- catch fire
- cause to start burning
- cause inflammation in
- become inflamed; get sore
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
verb
- To give the appearance of, or make a show of, (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude.
- To assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to posture, to posturize; also, to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses.
- To cause (someone or something) to assume an attitude or pose; to pose, to posture.
- (figurative) To create art, speak, or write in a manner which assumes affected, exaggerated, or unnatural attitudes.
- assume certain affected attitudes
verb
adj
noun
- A grotesque misrepresentation.
- A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.
- (computing) In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look less like the average face, and thus more distinctive.
- a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
verb
- (figurative, transitive) To represent something as being more important, better, or worse than it actually is; to exaggerate.
- (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
- (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.
- (figurative) To swell; to puff up.
- (intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).
- become inflated
- cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit
- increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value
- fill with gas or air
- exaggerate or make bigger
verb
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- lie down comfortably
noun
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
adj
verb
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify, exaggerate.
- (transitive) To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).
- (transitive) To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) larger or more important.
- make large
- to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
- increase in size, volume or significance
verb
noun
- A cocktail made from a spirit plus soda water etc.
- (rail transport, US) An all clear or full speed ahead signal.
- Clipping of highball glass, a tall glass tumbler used for serving highballs.
- (climbing) A very high bouldering problem, often with a hard landing.
- a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass
verb
- (transitive) To misrepresent (something) by oversimplifying a summary of its essence.
- (transitive) To misrepresent (a characteristic of something) by falsely portraying it as essential to the whole (that is, implying that it defines the whole's essence).
- (transitive) To reduce (something) to its essence.
adj
adj
noun
- The sport of gymnastics and dance routines performed on horseback, and on the longe line.
- A vaulted structure; such structures treated as a group.
- The practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction.
- (architecture) a vaulted structure
- a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down
verb
adj
- Using hyperbole: exaggerated.
- (color theory) Of a perceived color, having a saturation exceeding 100%.
- Of or relating to hyperbole.
- (topology) Of, pertaining to, or in a hyperbolic space (a space having negative curvature or sectional curvature).
- (mathematics, of a metric space or a geometry) Having negative curvature or sectional curvature.
- (geometry, topology, of an automorphism) Whose domain has two (possibly ideal) fixed points joined by a line mapped to itself by translation.
- Indicates that the specified function is a hyperbolic function rather than a trigonometric function.
- Of or pertaining to a hyperbola.
- enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness
- of or relating to a hyperbola
adj
- avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis)
- being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something
- without interpretation or embellishment
- limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text
- (theology, specifically) Following the historical-grammatical method of biblical interpretation.
- (proscribed) Used nonliterally as an intensifier. See literally for usage notes.
- Actual, real, physical.
- Exactly as stated; read or understood without interpretation; according to the letter; not figurative or metaphorical; following the letter or exact words; not taking liberties; etymonic rather than idiomatic.
- (uncommon) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters (of an alphabet); using literation.
- (loosely) That which generally assumes that the plainest reading of a given text is correct but which allows for metaphor where context indicates it.
- (of a person) Unimaginative; matter-of-fact; literal-minded.
- Misspelling of littoral.
noun
- a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
- (epigraphy, typography) A misprint (or occasionally a scribal error) that affects a letter.
- (logic) A propositional variable, or the negation of a propositional variable. ᵂᵖ
- (programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.
- Misspelling of littoral.
adj
- (informal) Tending to exaggerate in order to get attention.
- Of or relating to the drama.
- Striking in appearance or effect.
- Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.
- sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect
- suitable to or characteristic of drama
- pertaining to or characteristic of drama
- used of a singer or singing voice that is marked by power and expressiveness and a histrionic or theatrical style