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1. To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
   "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this 'gracious Old South' imagery"
   - overstate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise [Brit], magnify, amplify
    
2. Do something to an excessive degree
   "He exaggerated it last night when he did 100 pushups"
   - overdo

Derived forms: exaggerated, exaggerates, exaggerating

See also: exaggeration

Type of: disinform, do, make, misinform, mislead