intransitive verb. To consider, represent, or cause to appear as larger, more important, or more extreme than is actually the case; overstate.

intransitive verb. To make overstatements.

To heap up; accumulate.

To increase immoderately or extravagantly; make incongruously large or extended; amplify beyond proper bounds.

To cause to appear immoderately large or important; amplify in representation or apprehension; enlarge beyond truth or reason.

In the fine arts, to heighten extravagantly or disproportionately in effect or design: as, to exaggerate particular features in a painting or statue.

To amplify unduly in thought or in description; use exaggeration in speech or writing.

transitive verb. To heap up; to accumulate.

transitive verb. To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning.

verb. To overstate, to describe more than is fact.

verb. to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

verb. do something to an excessive degree

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