Exaggerate vs Gab - What's the difference?
exaggerate | gab |
To overstate, to describe more than is fact.
idle chatter
The mouth or gob.
One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
(obsolete) To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
(obsolete) To speak or tell falsely.
As verbs the difference between exaggerate and gab
is that exaggerate is to overstate, to describe more than is fact while gab is (obsolete) to jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.As a noun gab is
idle chatter.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.
