What's the difference between exaggerate and overexaggerate?

Exaggerate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To heap up; to accumulate.
  • (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.

Overexaggerate


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