Intensify vs Exaggerate - What's the difference?
intensify | exaggerate |
To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.
To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
To overstate, to describe more than is fact.
As verbs the difference between intensify and exaggerate
is that intensify is to render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity while exaggerate is to overstate, to describe more than is fact.intensify
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(en-verb)exaggerate
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(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.
