HOW TO PRONOUNCE
exaggerate
/ɪɡˈzædʒɚˌeɪt/
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The g sounds change as the word unfolds.
Start with a light vowel followed by hard g and z. After the strongest vowel, the later g has the j sound in job; the ending gets a smaller beat.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“Try not to exaggerate the problem.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does exaggerate mean?
verb
- To overstate, to describe more than the fact.
adjective
- Exaggerative; overblown.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɪɡˈzædʒɚˌeɪt/
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It is quite true that children tend to exaggerate their powers of execution and to select projects that are beyond them.
This is a very important fact in the history of humanity, and of which it is difficult to exaggerate the importance.
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Such refractions of thought occur frequently and are very important, particularly in witnesses who exaggerate or do not tell the whole truth.
It is, therefore, hardly possible to exaggerate the importance during rude times of the love of praise and the dread of blame.
Nor did wild rumors of all sorts fail to exaggerate, and still the more horrify the true histories of these deadly encounters.