to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
"tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
do something to an excessive degree
"He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups"
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exaggerate
To draw a long bow (i.e. exaggerate). [ Proverb ]
Praise and blame; but do not exaggerate. [ Al-Iraki ]
We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. [ La Harpe ]
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike.
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. [ Balzac ]
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. [ Chamfort ]
It is a species of slander, to lessen the merits or exaggerate the failings of others. [ W. Gilpin ]
There is in us a tendency to exaggeration; we exaggerate the merits of our friends, and the worthlessness of our enemies. [ Bovee ]
When we exaggerate the tenderness of our friends towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own merit. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
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