different between heighten vs exaggerate

English

Etymology

From Middle English heightenen, hyghtenen, equivalent to height +? -en (verbal suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha?t?n/
• Rhymes: -a?t?n

Verb

heighten (third-person singular simple present heightens, present participle heightening, simple past and past participle heightened)

1. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
2. To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.

   “That’s heightened by the impact of climate change,” she added.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin exaggeratus, past participle of exaggerare (“to heap up, increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, exaggerate”), from ex (“out, up”) + aggerare (“to heap up”), from agger (“a pile, heap, mound, dike, mole, pier, etc.”), from aggerere, adgerere (“to bring together”), from ad (“to, toward”) +? gerere (“to carry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???zæ.d??.?e?t/, /???zæ.d??.?e?t/
• Hyphenation: ex?ag?ger?ate

Verb

exaggerate (third-person singular simple present exaggerates, present participle exaggerating, simple past and past participle exaggerated)

1. To overstate, to describe more than is fact.

Synonyms

• big up
• overexaggerate
• overstate
• hyperbolize

Antonyms

• (overstate): belittle, downplay, understate, trivialize

Derived terms

Related terms

• exaggeration

Translations

Further reading

• exaggerate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• exaggerate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• exaggerate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ek.sa?.?e?ra?.te/, [?ks?ä?????ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.sad.d??e?ra.te/, [??z?d????????t??]

Verb

exagger?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of exagger?