Synonyms:
overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify
Meaning: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
Synonyms:
overdo, exaggerate
Meaning: do something to an excessive degree; "He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups"
Usage examples
"My dear fellow, you exaggerate.
"Do not exaggerate, Philip, and take care how you represent your wife to me as a woman of depraved mind--"
It would be impossible to state adequately the evil results which have flowed from this dualism of mind and body, much less to exaggerate them. Some of the more striking effects, may, however, be enumerated.
"Even in ordinary matters," she thought, "it is too common a practice, to say nothing of the good done by people, but to exaggerate the bad; and so, in such cases, if it should be rumored that mine was that living spirit which tormented Lady Aoi, how trying it would be to me!