Exacerbate vs Exaggerate - What's the difference?
exacerbate | exaggerate |
To make worse (pain, anger, etc.); aggravate.
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To overstate, to describe more than is fact.
As verbs the difference between exacerbate and exaggerate
is that exacerbate is to make worse (pain, anger, etc.); aggravate while exaggerate is to overstate, to describe more than is fact.exacerbate
English
Verb
(exacerbat)- The proposed shutdown would exacerbate unemployment problems.
- The reasons for this growing disconnect are myriad and complex but the situation is exacerbated by the reality that those English players who do smash through our game's "glass ceiling" command radically inflated transfer fees.
Derived terms
* exacerbatingly * exacerbationSee also
* exasperate ----exaggerate
English
Verb
(exaggerat)- I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate !
- He said he'd slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he's exaggerating . The real number is about ten.
