Exaggerate

In this word, the prefix “ex-” is an intensifier, not a prepositional prefix.  So, “to intensely aggregate a pile of things.”

  • 01.094 poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit,

“exaggerate, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 27 July 2015.

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