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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Exaggeration

/ĭg-zăjˌ-ẽr-āsh'-ən/ · Ex·ag·ger·a·tion · IPA /ɪɡˌzæd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/
01 n. The act of heaping or piling up.
  1. 1.
    The act of heaping or piling up.[Obs.]
  2. 2.
    The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.
    “No need of an exaggeration of what they saw.” I. Taylor.
  3. 3.
    A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.(Paint.)