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"
Usage examples
And the shade of meaning, the limited qualification, that a Frenchman or Englishman can attain with a mere twist of the sentence, the German must either abandon or laboriously overstate with some colossal wormcast of parenthesis....