overstate

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, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw

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