exaggerate

1. To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth (synset 200841513)
   "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
   is a type of: misinform, mislead - give false or misleading information to
   subtypes:

   • overemphasise, overemphasize, overstress - place special or excessive emphasis on
   • blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt - show off
   • aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad - add details to
   same as: amplify, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate
2. Do something to an excessive degree (synset 202574914)
   "He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups"
   is a type of: do, make - engage in
   subtypes:

   • overpraise - praise excessively
   • oversimplify - simplify to an excessive degree
   • overleap - defeat (oneself) by going too far
   same as: overdo

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