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
adjective
- Represented as greater than is true or reasonable.
- usage: "an exaggerated opinion of oneself"
- synonyms: exaggerated, overdone
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