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All overemphasize synonyms

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verb overemphasize

  • 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, 1880–1940, 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.
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