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1 exaggerated
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2 exaggerated
exaggerated adj exagéré ; he has an exaggerated sense of his own importance il se fait une idée exagérée de son importance. -
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exaggerated [ɪg'zædʒəreɪtɪd]∎ to have an exaggerated opinion of oneself or of one's own worth avoir une trop haute opinion de soi-mêmeUn panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > exaggerated
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4 extravagant
extravagant [ɪkˈstrævəgənt]b. ( = exaggerated) extravagant* * *[ɪk'strævəgənt]1) [person] dépensier/-ière; [way of life] dispendieux/-ieuse2) ( luxurious) [dish] luxueux/-euse3) ( exaggerated) extravagant -
5 rumour
1 noun(a) (information) rumeur f, bruit m (qui court);∎ there's a rumour going round that…, rumour has it that… le bruit court que…;∎ the rumour that she's left the country is untrue la rumeur selon laquelle elle aurait quitté le pays n'est pas fondée;∎ so rumour has it c'est ce qu'on dit;∎ to hear a rumour that… entendre dire que…;∎ there are rumours of a takeover on parle de ou d'un rachat;∎ have you heard any rumours about what's going to happen? est-ce que vous avez entendu parler de ce qui va se passer?;∎ it's only a rumour ce n'est qu'une rumeur ou qu'un bruit qui court ou qu'un on-dit∎ it is rumoured that… le bruit court que…;∎ she is rumoured to be extremely rich on la dit extrêmement riche;∎ he is rumoured to have killed a man on dit ou le bruit court qu'il a tué un homme;∎ he was rumoured to be in hiding le bruit courait qu'il se cachait;∎ so it was rumoured c'est ce qu'on a dit►► figurative the rumour mill la rumeur publique;∎ the rumour mill has been working overtime la rumeur a pris beaucoup d'ampleurⓘ Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated Cette phrase ("les rumeurs concernant ma mort sont très exagérées") aurait été prononcée par Mark Twain après qu'un journal avait annoncé son décès par erreur. Aujourd'hui on utilise cette phrase lorsque l'on veut démentir une rumeur ou une idée reçue. On pourra dire par exemple rumours of the death of vinyl records have been greatly exaggerated ("les rumeurs concernant la fin des disques vinyle sont très exagérées"). -
6 camp
camp [kæmp]1. noun2. adjectivea. ( = affected) [person, behaviour] affectéb. ( = effeminate) efféminé4. compounds* * *[kæmp] 1.to make ou pitch camp — planter son camp
3) (colloq) péj ( mannered style) cabotinage (colloq) m2.adjective péj1) ( exaggerated) [person] cabotin (colloq); [gesture, performance] théâtral2) ( effeminate) efféminé3.intransitive verb camperPhrasal Verbs:- camp out••to camp it up — (colloq) ( overact) cabotiner (colloq); ( act effeminately) forcer dans le genre efféminé
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7 exaggerate
exaggerate [ɪgˈzædʒəreɪt]a. ( = overstate) exagérer ; [+ problem] exagérer l'importance deb. ( = emphasize) accentuer* * *[ɪg'zædʒəreɪt] 1.transitive verb gen exagérer; ( in one's own mind) s'exagérer [problem, effect]2.intransitive verb exagérer -
8 love
love [lʌv]1. nouna. (for person) amour m► for love• don't give me any money, I'm doing it for love ne me donnez pas d'argent, je le fais parce que ça me fait plaisir• all my love, Jim bises, Jimd. (British term of address) (inf) (to child) mon petit, ma petite ; (to man) mon chéri ; (to woman) ma chérie ; (between strangers) (to man) mon petit monsieur (inf) ; (to woman) ma petite dame (inf)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► En Grande-Bretagne, ne vous étonnez pas si une vendeuse ou un conducteur d'autobus vous appelle love ou dear - cette manière de s'adresser à des inconnus n'a aucune connotation sexuelle.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━a. [+ person] aimer• he didn't just like her, he loved her il ne l'aimait pas d'amitié, mais d'amour• he loves reading/photography il adore lire/la photographie• I'd love to! (in answer to question) avec plaisir !• I'd love to but unfortunately... j'aimerais bien, malheureusement...• she's going to love that! (sarcastic) elle va être ravie !3. compounds• my loved ones les êtres qui me sont chers ► love handles (inf) plural noun poignées fpl d'amour (inf)• they have a love-hate relationship ils s'aiment et se détestent à la fois ► love letter noun lettre f d'amour* * *[lʌv] 1.1) (affection, devotion) amour mto be/fall in love — être/tomber amoureux/-euse ( with de)
to make love — ( have sex) faire l'amour
2) ( in polite formulas)with love from Bob —
love Bob — affectueusement, Bob
3) ( object of affection) amour mbe a love — (colloq) GB sois gentil
4) GB ( term of address) ( to adult) mon amour m, mon chéri/ma chérie m/f; ( to child) mon chéri/ma chérie m/f5) ( in tennis) zéro m2. 3.transitive verb1) ( feel affection for) aimer2) ( appreciate) aimer beaucoup ( to do faire); ( accepting invitation)‘I'd love to!’ — ‘avec plaisir!’
3) (colloq) ( in exaggerated speech) adorershe'll love that! — iron elle sera vraiment ravie! iron
••there's no love lost between them — ils/elles se détestent cordialement
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9 over
over [ˈəʊvər]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. adverb2. adjective3. preposition4. noun5. modifier━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. adverb► to have sb over ( = invite) inviter qn chez soib. ( = there) làc. ( = above) dessusd. (with adverb/preposition)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When followed by an adverb or a preposition, over is not usually translated.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━e. ( = more) plusf. ( = in succession) he did it five times over il l'a fait cinq fois de suite• William played the same tune over and over again William a joué le même air je ne sais combien de fois• I got bored doing the same thing over and over again je m'ennuyais à refaire toujours la même choseg. ( = remaining) there are three over il en reste troish. (on two-way radio) over! à vous !• over and out! terminé !2. adjective( = finished) after the war was over après la guerre3. preposition━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When over occurs in a set combination, eg over the moon, an advantage over, look up the noun. When over is used with a verb such as jump, trip, step, look up the verb.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━a. ( = on top of) surb. ( = above) au-dessus dec. ( = across) de l'autre côté ded. ( = during) over the summer pendant l'étéf. ( = more than) plus de• spending has gone up by 7% over and above inflation les dépenses ont augmenté de 7 %, hors inflation• over and above the fact that... sans compter que...h. ( = while having) they chatted over a cup of coffee ils ont bavardé autour d'une tasse de caféi. ( = recovered from)► to be over sth [+ illness, bad experience] s'être remis de qch4. noun5. modifier* * *Note: over is used after many verbs in English ( change over, fall over, lean over etc). For translations, consult the appropriate verb entry (change, fall, lean etc)over is often used with another preposition in English (to, in, on) without altering the meaning. In this case over is usually not translated in French: to be over in France = être en France; to swim over to somebody = nager vers quelqu'unover is often used with nouns in English when talking about superiority ( control over etc) or when giving the cause of something ( concern over, worries over etc). For translations, consult the appropriate noun entry (control, concern, worry etc)over is often used as a prefix in verb combinations ( overeat), adjective combinations ( overconfident) and noun combinations ( overcoat). These combinations are treated as headwords in the dictionary['əʊvə(r)] 1.1) ( across the top of) par-dessusover here/there — par ici/là
3) ( above) au-dessus de4) (covering, surrounding) gen sur5) ( physically higher than)6) ( more than) plus detemperatures over 40° — des températures supérieures à 40°
7) ( in the course of)8) ( recovered from)to be over — s'être remis de [illness, operation]
9) ( by means of)10) ( everywhere)2.over and above prepositional phrase3.adjective, adverb2) ( finished)to be over — [term, meeting] être terminé; [war] être fini
3) ( more)4) ( remaining)5) (to one's house, country)to invite ou ask somebody over — inviter quelqu'un
6) Radio, Television7) ( showing repetition)I had to do it over — US j'ai dû recommencer
I've told you over and over (again)... — je t'ai dit je ne sais combien de fois...
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10 overdone
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11 caricature
['kærikətjuə](a drawing or imitation (of someone or something) which is so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous: Caricatures of politicians appear in the newspapers every day.) caricature -
12 exaggeration
1) (the act of exaggerating.) exagération2) (an exaggerated description, term etc: To say she is beautiful is an exaggeration, but she does have nice eyes.) exagération -
13 extravagant
[ik'strævəɡənt]1) (using or spending too much; wasteful: He's extravagant with money; an extravagant use of materials/energy.) dépensier; gaspilleur2) ((of ideas, emotions etc) exaggerated or too great: extravagant praise.) excessif•- extravagance -
14 gushing
adjective (speaking or spoken in an exaggerated manner: gushing remarks; She's a bit too gushing for me.) exubérant -
15 melodrama
1) (a (type of) play in which emotions and the goodness or wickedness of the characters are exaggerated greatly.) mélodrame2) ((an example of) behaviour similar to a play of this sort: He makes a melodrama out of everything that happens.) mélo•- melodramatically -
16 overdo
[əuvə'du:]past tense - overdid; verb1) (to do, say (something) in an exaggerated way etc: They overdid the sympathy.) exagérer2) (to cook for too long: The meat was rather overdone.) trop cuire -
17 sense
[sens] 1. noun1) (one of the five powers (hearing, taste, sight, smell, touch) by which a person or animal feels or notices.) sens2) (a feeling: He has an exaggerated sense of his own importance.) sentiment3) (an awareness of (something): a well-developed musical sense; She has no sense of humour.) sens4) (good judgement: You can rely on him - he has plenty of sense.) bon sens5) (a meaning (of a word).) sens6) (something which is meaningful: Can you make sense of her letter?) signification2. verb(to feel, become aware of, or realize: He sensed that she disapproved.) sentir (intuitivement)- senselessly - senselessness - senses - sixth sense -
18 camp
A n1 gen (of tents, buildings etc) camp m ; ( of nomads) campement m ; to make ou pitch camp planter son camp ; to strike camp lever le camp ; to go to camp [scout etc] partir en camp ;2 ( effeminate) efféminé ;3 ( in bad taste) kitsch.to have a foot in both camps avoir un pied dans chaque camp ; to camp it up ○ ( overact) cabotiner ○ ; ( act effeminately) forcer dans le genre efféminé.■ camp out dormir sous la tente ; he's camping out in the lounge il campe dans le salon. -
19 exalted
2 ( jubilant) [person, mood] exalté ;3 ( exaggerated) to have an exalted opinion of oneself se faire des illusions sur soi-même. -
20 overdone
1 ( exaggerated) [effect, emotion] exagéré ; the comedy was overdone les passages comiques n'étaient pas très subtils ;2 ( overcooked) trop cuit.
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