Exaggerate vs Exaggerated - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between exaggerate and exaggerated

is that exaggerate is to overstate, to describe more than is fact while exaggerated is past tense of exaggerate.

that has been described as greater than it actually is; abnormally increased or enlarged.

(exaggerat)

To overstate, to describe more than is fact.

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.

* overexaggerate * overstate

* (overstate) downplay, understate

* exaggeratedly * exaggeratingly * exaggerative * exaggeratively * exaggerativeness * exaggerator * exaggeratory

(en adjective)

That has been described as greater than it actually is; abnormally increased or enlarged.

* unexaggerated

(head)

(exaggerate)