All overemphasize synonyms
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- exaggerate β Represent (something) as being larger, greater, better, or worse than it really is.
- overstate β to state too strongly; exaggerate: to overstate one's position in a controversy.
- overstress β overemphasize.
- stress β importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth.
- embellish β Make (something) more attractive by the addition of decorative details or features.
- aggrandize β To aggrandize someone means to make them seem richer, more powerful, and more important than they really are. To aggrandize a building means to make it more impressive.
- amplify β If you amplify a sound, you make it louder, usually by using electronic equipment.
- color β the sensation resulting from stimulation of the retina of the eye by light waves of certain lengths
- distend β Swell or cause to swell by pressure from inside.
- dramatize β to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
- elaboration β The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
- enhance β Intensify, increase, or further improve the quality, value, or extent of.
- enlarge β Make or become bigger or more extensive.
- expand β explain
- falsify β to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- fudge β a small stereotype or a few lines of specially prepared type, bearing a newspaper bulletin, for replacing a detachable part of a page plate without the need to replate the entire page.
- heighten β to increase the height of; make higher.
- hyperbolize β to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- lie β Jonas, 1880β1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
- magnify β to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.
- overdo β to do to excess; overindulge in: to overdo dieting.
- overestimate β to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
- pad β Packet Assembler/Disassembler
- puff β a short, quick blast, as of wind or breath.
- romanticize β to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- stretch β to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
- build up β If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
- overelaborate β excessively or fussily elaborate, ornate, detailed, etc.
- overembellish β Make (something) too ornate or complicated.
- play up β a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- yeast β any of various small, single-celled fungi of the phylum Ascomycota that reproduce by fission or budding, the daughter cells often remaining attached, and that are capable of fermenting carbohydrates into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
- distort β to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- emphasize β Give special importance or prominence to (something) in speaking or writing.
- fabricate β to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- inflate β deflate
- misrepresent β to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
- overdraw β to draw upon (an account, allowance, etc.) in excess of the balance standing to one's credit or at one's disposal: It was the first time he had ever overdrawn his account.
- boast β If someone boasts about something that they have done or that they own, they talk about it very proudly, in a way that other people may find irritating or offensive.
- boost β If one thing boosts another, it causes it to increase, improve, or be more successful.
- brag β If you brag, you say in a very proud way that you have something or have done something.
- caricature β A caricature of someone is a drawing or description of them that exaggerates their appearance or behaviour in a humorous or critical way.
- corrupt β Someone who is corrupt behaves in a way that is morally wrong, especially by doing dishonest or illegal things in return for money or power.
- embroider β Decorate (cloth) by sewing patterns on it with thread.
- exalt β Hold (someone or something) in very high regard; think or speak very highly of.
- hike β to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.
- intensify β to make intense or more intense.
- misquote β a quotation that is incorrect.
- pyramid β Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
- romance β Music. a short, simple melody, vocal or instrumental, of tender character.