Minimize vs Exaggerate - What's the difference?
minimize | exaggerate |
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.
To overstate, to describe more than is fact.
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
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Alternative forms
* (l) (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(minimiz)- I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop.
exaggerate
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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.