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Verb: exaggerate  ig'zaju`reyt
  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
    - overdo

Derived forms: exaggerates, exaggerated, exaggerating

See also: exaggeration

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

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