exageró

Exageró is a Spanish verb form. It is the third-person singular pretérito indefinido (preterite) of the verb exaggerar, meaning to exaggerate. This form indicates that someone or something exaggerated a statement, fact, or event in the past.

Etymology and orthography: Exagerar derives from Latin exaggerare, passing into the Romance languages, including Spanish. The pretérite form exaggeró carries an accent on the final syllable to indicate stress on the last syllable, as required by Spanish orthography for the corresponding tense and person. The present tense form is exagero.

Usage: Exageró is used in narrative and report to describe past overstatement. It appears in journalism, literature, and everyday speech to convey that a claim or description was made more extreme than reality. It is part of a family of related forms, including exaggeración (exaggeration), exagerado (exaggerated), and exageradamente (excessively).

Examples:

- Él exageró las cifras de la encuesta.

- La noticia exageró los riesgos asociados.

- No creas todo lo que dijo; probablemente exageró.

See also: exaggeración, exagerado, exageradamente.