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1 a exagera peste măsură
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2 exagerar
v.to exaggerate.yo creo que exageras I think you're exaggeratingno exageremos, no fue para tanto let's not exaggerate, it wasn't that badtantas precauciones, ¿no estás exagerando un poco? aren't you going a bit too far with o overdoing it with all these precautions?María magnificó sus sentimientos Mary exaggerated her feelings.* * *1 to exaggerate1 to exaggerate2 (abusar) to overdo it, do too much* * *verb* * *1.creo que eso sería exagerar las cosas — I think that would be going a bit far o overdoing it a bit
2.* * *1.verbo transitivo <suceso/noticia> to exaggerate2.exagerar vi ( al hablar) to exaggerate; ( al hacer algo)tampoco hay que exagerar, no tienes que acabarlo todo hoy — there's no need to overdo it, you don't have to finish it all today
* * *= exaggerate, overstate, inflate, make + a mountain out of a molehill, overplay + Posesivo + hand, go + overboard, dramatise [dramatize, -USA], get + worked up about nothing, fret about + nothing, hype.Ex. Users do not find this intolerable, so it may be that we tend to exaggerate the hostility that would be aroused by a similar approach in library catalogues.Ex. There is a tendency for people interviewed to overstate their use of public libraries.Ex. However, their average results were considerably inflated by one query which retrieved 412 items.Ex. 'After all,' he thought to himself, 'I may be making a mountain out of a molehill in this thing'.Ex. Whatever the situation, prepared for or unexpected, it is always too easy to overplay one's hand, praising a book so extravagantly, so effusively, that many children are put off.Ex. The article ' Going overboard with micros in the small library' offers guidelines for the small library on approaching the subject of microcomputers.Ex. This article describes how a group of 12-18 teenage volunteers formed a group to dramatise children's books for young children and their parents at a public library.Ex. Here's why I think this really was a mistake, and why we're getting worked up about nothing in this particular instance.Ex. I suggest that we are fretting about nothing and that we would do well to go with the flow and let the systems be introduced, as has been proposed.Ex. The field is clouded by manufacturers hyping their own products and industry factions spin-doctoring new technologies.----* exagerar las cualidades de Algo = oversell.* exagerar los méritos de Algotiene = oversell.* * *1.verbo transitivo <suceso/noticia> to exaggerate2.exagerar vi ( al hablar) to exaggerate; ( al hacer algo)tampoco hay que exagerar, no tienes que acabarlo todo hoy — there's no need to overdo it, you don't have to finish it all today
* * *= exaggerate, overstate, inflate, make + a mountain out of a molehill, overplay + Posesivo + hand, go + overboard, dramatise [dramatize, -USA], get + worked up about nothing, fret about + nothing, hype.Ex: Users do not find this intolerable, so it may be that we tend to exaggerate the hostility that would be aroused by a similar approach in library catalogues.
Ex: There is a tendency for people interviewed to overstate their use of public libraries.Ex: However, their average results were considerably inflated by one query which retrieved 412 items.Ex: 'After all,' he thought to himself, 'I may be making a mountain out of a molehill in this thing'.Ex: Whatever the situation, prepared for or unexpected, it is always too easy to overplay one's hand, praising a book so extravagantly, so effusively, that many children are put off.Ex: The article ' Going overboard with micros in the small library' offers guidelines for the small library on approaching the subject of microcomputers.Ex: This article describes how a group of 12-18 teenage volunteers formed a group to dramatise children's books for young children and their parents at a public library.Ex: Here's why I think this really was a mistake, and why we're getting worked up about nothing in this particular instance.Ex: I suggest that we are fretting about nothing and that we would do well to go with the flow and let the systems be introduced, as has been proposed.Ex: The field is clouded by manufacturers hyping their own products and industry factions spin-doctoring new technologies.* exagerar las cualidades de Algo = oversell.* exagerar los méritos de Algotiene = oversell.* * *exagerar [A1 ]vt‹suceso/noticia› to exaggerateestás exagerando la importancia del asunto you're exaggerating o overstating the importance of the matter■ exagerarvi(al hablar) to exaggerate(al hacer algo): tampoco hay que exagerar, no tienes que acabarlo todo hoy there's no need to overdo it, you don't have to finish it all today* * *
Multiple Entries:
exagerar
exagerar algo
exagerar ( conjugate exagerar) verbo transitivo ‹suceso/noticia› to exaggerate
verbo intransitivo ( al hablar) to exaggerate;
( al hacer algo) to overdo it, go over the top (colloq)
exagerar verbo transitivo to exaggerate
' exagerar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
dramatizar
- magnificar
- tinta
- agrandar
- tendencia
English:
dramatize
- embellish
- embroider
- exaggerate
- magnify
- overdo
- overstate
- pile on
- stretch
- blow
- over
- proportion
* * *♦ vtto exaggerate;la oposición exagera la trascendencia de este asunto the opposition has blown this issue out of proportion♦ vi1. [al describir, calificar] to exaggerate;yo creo que exageras I think you're exaggerating;no exageremos, no fue para tanto let's not exaggerate, it wasn't that bad2. [al actuar] to go too far, to overdo it ( con with);tantas precauciones, ¿no estás exagerando un poco? aren't you going a bit too far with o overdoing it with all these precautions?* * *v/t exaggerate* * *exagerar v: to exaggerate* * *exagerar vb to exaggerate -
3 cuentista
adj.1 gossipy, fibber.2 story-writing.f. & m.1 short story writer.2 fibber, story-teller (informal) (mentiroso).3 storywriter, story-teller, storyteller.4 liar, talebearer.* * *► adjetivo1 familiar overdramatic1 (autor) story story writer; (narrador) storyteller* * *SMF1) (Literat) (=escritor) short-story writer; (=narrador) storyteller2) (=chismoso) gossip; (=soplón) telltale3) (=mentiroso) liar, fibber *4) esp LAm * (=estafador) confidence trickster, con man ** * *Ia) (fam) ( exagerado)no seas cuentista, que no duele tanto — don't exaggerate, it doesn't hurt that much
b) ( fantasioso)IIser cuentista — to be a fibber (colloq)
masculino y femeninoa) (Lit) short-story writerb) (fam) ( exagerado)no te fíes de ese cuentista, es puro teatro — don't fall for his playacting, he's just putting it on
c) ( fantasioso) fibber (colloq)* * *Ia) (fam) ( exagerado)no seas cuentista, que no duele tanto — don't exaggerate, it doesn't hurt that much
b) ( fantasioso)IIser cuentista — to be a fibber (colloq)
masculino y femeninoa) (Lit) short-story writerb) (fam) ( exagerado)no te fíes de ese cuentista, es puro teatro — don't fall for his playacting, he's just putting it on
c) ( fantasioso) fibber (colloq)* * *( fam):no seas cuentista, que le pongan a uno una inyección no es para tanto don't exaggerate o don't be so dramatic, having an injection's not that bad!con lo cuentista que es, no sé si creérmelo he's such a fibber, I'm not sure whether to believe him ( colloq)1 ( Lit) short-story writerno te fíes de ese cuentista, es puro teatro don't fall for all his playacting o don't trust that fibber, it's all just put on ( colloq)* * *
cuentista adjetivoa) (fam) ( exagerado):◊ no seas cuentista, que no duele tanto don't exaggerate, it doesn't hurt that muchb) ( fantasioso):◊ ser cuentista to be a fibber (colloq)
■ sustantivo masculino y femeninoa) (Lit) short-story writerb) (fam) ( exagerado):◊ no te fíes de ese cuentista, es puro teatro don't fall for his playacting, he's just putting it on
' cuentista' also found in these entries:
English:
storyteller
* * *♦ adjFam [mentiroso]no seas cuentista don't tell fibs♦ nmf1. [escritor] short story writeres un cuentista, se cayó él solo, yo no lo toqué he's telling fibs o he's fibbing, he fell by himself, I never touched him* * ** * *cuentista nmf1) : short story writer -
4 a mânca borş
to tell a whopper.2. ( a exagera) to draw / to stretch the long bow. -
5 a o lăsa mai moale
1. ( cu eforturile) to take it easyto relax in one's effortsto haul in one's sailsto draw in one's hornsto sing small.2. to change one's note / tuneto come down a peg (or two)to go to the wallto come in. -
6 a spune baliverne / basme / braşoave
1. to talk nonsense / bilge / twaddle at randomto talk wildlyto talkthrough one's hat / through (the back of) one's neck / with one's tongue in one's cheek.2. ( a exagera)to draw / to pull the long bowto throw the hatchetto cut it too fat.Română-Engleză dicționar expresii > a spune baliverne / basme / braşoave
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7 a spune basme
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8 a sări peste cal
1. ( a se enerva) to fly off the handleto rush one's fences2. ( a exagera) to lay (it) on (thick) with a trowel. -
9 a tăia la gogoşi / minciuni / palavre
to spin a yarnto throw a hatchetto swaggerto stretchto vapour( a exagera) to draw / to pull / to shoot the long bow.Română-Engleză dicționar expresii > a tăia la gogoşi / minciuni / palavre
См. также в других словарях:
exagera — EXAGERÁ, exagerez, vb. I. tranz. A prezenta un fapt în dimensiuni mărite faţă de realitate, a da proporţii, a amplifica peste măsură; a deforma realitatea prin mărirea proporţiilor unui fapt. – Din fr. exagérer, lat. exagerare. Trimis de RACAI,… … Dicționar Român
exagerá — vb., ind. prez. 1 sg. exageréz, 3 sg. şi pl. exagereázã … Romanian orthography
agéra — exagéra … Dictionnaire des rimes
exagerare — EXAGERÁRE, exagerări, s.f. Acţiunea de a exagera şi rezultatul ei; exageraţie; exces (1). – v. exagera. Trimis de ionel bufu, 13.09.2007. Sursa: DEX 98 EXAGERÁRE s. 1. (rar) exageraţie, (fig.) încărcare, înflorire, umflare. (exagerare… … Dicționar Român
exagerar — transitivo abultar, encarecer, ponderar, extremar, desorbitar, exorbitar, sacar de quicio. Desorbitar, exorbitar y sacar de quicio significan exagerar hasta el punto de deformar la verdad o realidad de las cosas fuera de todo asidero racional.… … Diccionario de sinónimos y antónimos
cuentista — ► sustantivo masculino femenino 1 coloquial Persona que exagera o falsea la realidad: ■ es un cuentista, se queja mucho pero es una simple indigestión. ► adjetivo/ sustantivo masculino femenino 2 coloquial Que acostumbra a contar cuentos o… … Enciclopedia Universal
exagerado — ► adjetivo/ sustantivo 1 Se aplica a la persona que exagera: ■ es muy exagerada con el maquillaje. SINÓNIMO [exagerador] ► adjetivo 2 Que excede de un límite considerado normal, justo o razonable: ■ es un precio exagerado para la calidad del… … Enciclopedia Universal
exagerar — (v) (Intermedio) presentar una cosa o persona de manera que sus características parezcan más importantes o mejores de lo que son Ejemplos: La verdad es que la prensa exagera y a menudo y añade detalles que no tienen nada que ver con la realidad.… … Español Extremo Basic and Intermediate
exagerat — EXAGERÁT, Ă, exageraţi, te, adj. Care nu se potriveşte cu realitatea, depăşind proporţiile ei. ♦ (Despre oameni) Care exagerează importanţa reală a unor fapte. ♦ Care depăşeşte limita normală; excesiv, abuziv. ♦ (Adverbial; legat de un adjectiv… … Dicționar Român
notă — NÓTĂ, note, s.f. 1. Însemnare, înregistrare în scris a unei observaţii referitoare la o anumită chestiune; text scris care conţine o scurtă însemnare, un comentariu. ♢ expr. A lua notă (de ceva) = a lua cunoştinţă (de ceva); a ţine seamă (de… … Dicționar Român
Caricatura — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Para otros usos de este término, véase Dibujo animado. Darwin caricaturizado en 1870 por John Tenniel. Una caricatura (del italiano caricare: cargar, exagerar) es un … Wikipedia Español
