[a. late L. exaggerātor, agent-n. f. exaggerā-re to EXAGGERATE.] One who or that which exaggerates.

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1822.  J. Flint, Lett. fr. Amer., 60. This is the hill that a florid exaggerator has described as a solid mass of coal.

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1828.  Blackw. Mag., XXIV. 47/2. Fear is a great exaggerator.

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1856.  Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, I. 858. Those virtuous liars, dreamers after dark, Exaggerators of the sun and moon.

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