(v. t.) To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was concluded that B. pertussis infection-induced hypoglycaemia was secondary to hyperinsulinaemia, possibly caused by an exaggerated insulin secretory response to food intake.
(2) Conclusion 1 says that "deliberate attempts were made to frustrate these interviews" – which appears to be an exaggeration.
(3) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
(4) In short, it says the IPCC exaggerates the warming effect of CO2.
(5) The government argued these reports were exaggerated.
(6) The exaggerated buckles used do not allow these monkeys to serve as a clinical model and great caution is stressed in making clinical extrapolations.
(7) These initial reflex responses were exaggerated in the spastics as compared with the normals.
(8) We interpret this exaggerated positive attitude as an attempt to overcome inner fears, doubts and ambivalences.
(9) Historically, what made SNL’s campaign coverage so necessary was its ability to highlight the subtle absurdities of the election and exaggerate the ridiculous.
(10) Most patients with abnormal OGTT's fell into the latter group, but some had glucose intolerance without either an exaggerated insulin response or insulin resistance.
(11) Exaggerations of this presumed daily incremental rhythm lead to the formation of the more major incremental lines which can also be visualized by scanning electron microscopy.
(12) An exaggerated insulin response to oral glucose was associated with reactive hypoglycemia in the post-gastrectomy syndrome, in normal-weight patients with chemical diabetes and 44% of the patients with the isolated syndrome.
(13) Both the absence of exaggerated splay in patients with reduction of glomerular filtration rate by as much as 85%, and the emergence of exaggerated splay in patients with more marked reduction of GFR, require explanation.
(14) In the case of PCP, however exaggerated the story, a real danger does exist.
(15) R6-PKC3 cells also show an exaggerated response to very low concentrations of serum, when compared to R6-C1 control cells.
(16) It was abnormal in its resistance to habituation and in its exaggerated motor response.
(17) This increase is exaggerated when hematocrit levels are increased and the cells are hypochromic and microcytic.
(18) These changes were of equal magnitude and in some cases tended to be exaggerated during the second and third matches.
(19) A more objective consideration relates to the observed late, progressive deleterious influences of hyperfiltration imposed upon the reduced population of surviving nephrons (3); would this process been exaggerated by improved perfusion?
(20) The prose rhythm and colloquial diction here work against exaggeration, but allow for humour.
Overdo
Definition:
(v. t.) To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far.
(v. t.) To overtask. or overtax; to fatigue; to exhaust; as, to overdo one's strength.
(v. t.) To surpass; to excel.
(v. t.) To cook too much; as, to overdo the meat.
(v. i.) To labor too hard; to do too much.
Example Sentences:
(1) And when they emerge into the daylight, the chancellor could, once again, be left looking like a salesman who can’t resist overdoing the patter.
(2) We have moved far from the ancient Greek principle "Meden agan," "don't overdo anything."
(3) Everyone is guilty of overdoing it on Trumpy , because Donald Trump is a jackass of galactic proportions.
(4) Adair Turner, the former chairman of the Financial Services Authority, told BBC2's Newsnight last week that the government could be overdoing stimulus to the housing market, which may cause future problems.
(5) This paper discusses whether countries in the "developed" world are overdoing it, thereby maybe hampering the essential use of chemicals in the developing countries.
(6) We want to take users out of hiding and create a situation where we can say: ‘You are overdoing it.
(7) Patients are often so anxious to return to activity that they overdo, leading to a decrease in function with a rapid return to the results of inflammation.
(8) Being half shut protects you from overdoing it, but there are still plenty of fabulous works, with time and space to enjoy those that catch your eye.
(9) We must not overdo it.” The World Cup was expanded from 24 teams to 32 in 1994 but most proposals for further expansion involve convoluted mathematical contortions or leave open the possibility of making the group stages unbalanced.
(10) to be on the overdoing side rather than on the underdoing one in a futile attempt at retaining the function.
(11) He added: "There is a danger in overdoing the gloom.
(12) Sun damage accumulates over time so avoiding sunburn – and sunbeds – is key as well as getting to know your skin type so you don’t overdo it on the beach or even in the garden.
(13) "But a lot of the reason why those endless weekends were happening in New York," he goes on more matter-of-factly, "and why there was a lot of overdoing it, was because the party was over.
(14) I was overdoing the last bit, as I mentally prepared to step on to the red carpet, enter the pre-ceremony champagne area, witness the ceremony itself and then mingle with the A-listers at the parties afterwards, like one of the grinning poor relations in The Pickwick Papers.
(15) In the US, meanwhile, opioid overdoes deaths increased 200% between 2000 and 2014 alone, and admissions to treatment for opioid problems skyrocketed.
(16) According to the degree of adjustment to the new clinical condition, it is possible to distinguish patients who react developing an anxious-depressive status (10-20%), those who realistically adjust to the new functional condition allowed by the pacemaker (70-80%) and those who, denying their disease, tend to overdo in their physical performance (10-20%).
(17) Jones positions herself as a sage elder counselling Gaga, Cyrus, Rihanna, Minaj, and others, about not overdoing sexuality and controversy, but she takes a few other swipes as well.
(18) So while it’s unquestionably the case that some people drink far too much for their own or society’s good and ought to rein in or stop, most people don’t overdo it.
(19) And don't overdo it with the housing allowance – avoid any postcode in which Goldman Sachs partners live.
(20) You can overdo the comparisons, but let’s at least agree that Trump’s America and Brexit Britain share the same common tragedy: a large chunk of the public that’s had enough of the same-old failed orthodoxy, a technocratic elite that also knows it’s no longer working – and a political class unable to grasp any real alternatives.