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Tending to exaggerate; involving exaggeration. "Exaggerative language." Geddes. "Exaggerative pictures." W. J. Linton. -- Ex*ag"ger*a*tive*ly, adv. Carlyle.

One who exaggerates; one addicted to exaggeration. L. Horner.

Containing, or tending to, exaggeration; exaggerative. Johnson.

Exasperated; imbittered. [Obs.] Shak. Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning. Mrs. Browning.

One who exasperates or inflames anger, enmity, or violence.

The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger. Extorted from him by the exasperation of his spirits. South.

To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes. [R.] Exenterated rule-mongers and eviscerated logicians. Hare.

Act of exenterating. [R.]

To unload; to disburden; to discharge. [Obs.] All exonerate themselves into one common duct. Ray.

The act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation; also, the state of being disburdened or freed from a charge.

Freeing from a burden or obligation; tending to exonerate.

One who exonerates or frees from obligation.

A swelling or rising; protuberance. [R.] Moxon.

Extuberance. [R.]

Swollen out; protuberant. [R.] "Extuberant lips." Gayton.

To swell out. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Protuberance. [Obs.] Farindon.

The state of being exuberant; an overflowing quantity; a copious or excessive production or supply; superabundance; richness; as, an exuberance of joy, of fancy, or of foliage.

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Characterized by abundance or superabundance; plenteous; rich; overflowing; copious or excessive in production; as, exuberant goodness; an exuberant intellect; exuberant foliage. "Exuberant spring." Thomson. -- Ex*u"ber*ant*ly, adv.