exaggerate

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To represent something as being larger, greater, better, or worse than it actually is; to overstate.

• He tends to exaggerate how much work he does.
• Don't exaggerate—the wait was only ten minutes, not an hour.
• The news report exaggerated the extent of the damage.
• Climate skeptics often exaggerate minor inconsistencies in temperature records to undermine the broader scientific consensus on global warming.
• Although the pharmaceutical company's press release appeared to exaggerate the new drug's efficacy, independent clinical trials confirmed modest but significant benefits.
• Historians caution that memoirs written decades after major events tend to exaggerate the author's influence and downplay the contributions of others.

Eş anlamlılar: overstate, embellish, magnify, inflate, amplify, hyperbolize

Zıt anlamlılar: understate, minimize, downplay, diminish