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exaggerate

/ɛɡˈzæ.dʒə.ɹeɪt/
verb
  1. To overstate, to describe more than is fact.

    "He said he'd slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he's exaggerating. The real number is about ten."

Synonymsbig up, hyperbolize, overexaggerate, overstate
Antonymsbelittle, downplay, trivialize, understate

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