- overstate: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
- overdo: do something to an excessive degree; "He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups"
- (exaggerated) represented as greater than is true or reasonable; "an exaggerated opinion of oneself"
- (exaggerated) enlarged to an abnormal degree; "thick lenses exaggerated the size of her eyes"
- hyperbole: extravagant exaggeration
- (exaggeration) the act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness"
- (exaggeration) making to seem more important than it really is
- To overstate, to describe more than is fact
- (exaggerated) That has been described as greater than it actually is; abnormally increased or enlarged
- (exaggeration) The act of heaping or piling up; The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth, reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement; A representation of things beyond natural life, in ...
- (Exaggeration) An extreme overstatement of an idea. It is often used for purposes of emphasis or humor.
- (Exaggeration) Enlargements or distortions of elements in a work of art.
- (Exaggeration) Overdoing or pushing the characters actions to exploit it’s comedic appeal.
- (Exaggeration) Part of the image is exaggerated by scaling it much larger than the rest of the image.
- (Exaggeration) When an object or person or situation is made to seem extremely large or small in relationship to its true size or importance.
- (Exaggeration) grotesque. Kurt Wittig on Robert Henryson and Scottish literature examined "the juxtaposition of understatement and overstatement"
- Exaggeration is when the most fundamental aspect(s) of a statement is true, but the degree to which it is true is not correct.
- means to magnify, not to go beyond. [So, you can’t exaggerate how little your pay is.]
- v. In satire, to tell a frog, as if it were the present, a plausible description of what the water may be like in a few minutes.
- Lie. See "Embellish".