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Minimize vs Exaggerate - What's the difference?

minimize | exaggerate |

As verbs the difference between minimize and exaggerate

is that minimize is to make (something) as small or as insignificant as possible while exaggerate is to overstate, to describe more than is fact.

minimize

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (non-Oxford British spelling)

Verb

(minimiz)
  • To make (something) as small or as insignificant as possible.
  • (computing, transitive, graphical user interface) To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.
  • I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop.

    exaggerate

    English

    Verb

    (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.

    Synonyms

    * overexaggerate * overstate

    Antonyms

    * (overstate) downplay, understate

    Derived terms

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