verb
- To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth.
- usage: "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
- synonyms: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify
- Do something to an excessive degree.
- usage: "He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups"
- synonyms: overdo, exaggerate
adjective
- Represented as greater than is true or reasonable.
- usage: "an exaggerated opinion of oneself"
- synonyms: overdone, overstated
- Enlarged to an abnormal degree.
- usage: "thick lenses exaggerated the size of her eyes"
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