To praise or compliment unduly or insincerely. †Const. of. †Also in weaker sense, to gloss over, palliate (faults), speak too leniently to (an…

transitive. To increase the importance of; to aggravate.

To magnify subjectively, make to appear greater; to heighten, exaggerate.

To raise too high, make too much of; to exaggerate, boast of. Obsolete.

To magnify in representation; to exaggerate. Obsolete.

transitive. To make the most of; to represent (something) as graver, more serious, or more important; to exaggerate. Obsolete.

transitive (and absol.) = exaggerate, v.

figurative. To inflate, enlarge, magnify; to make (a thing) appear greater or grander than it really is. Also, To invent a report of. Usually with up…

To enlarge (a thing) in representation; to magnify, exaggerate, make too much of.

To make more grievous or painful; to aggravate. Also, to represent as worse; to exaggerate, magnify. Obsolete.

figurative and transferred. To stuff, swell out, inflate.

transitive. To heap or build up; spec. to bank earth, manure, etc., around (a tree). Also in extended use. Cf. aggest, v.

To magnify, exaggerate in statement. Also, to set forth at length. Obsolete.

transitive. To magnify, exacerbate.

To magnify beyond the limits of truth; to represent something as greater than it really is.

transitive. To represent (a person, action, or thing) as greater than in reality; to exaggerate, intensify. Now often associated with sense 4.

transitive. To express or represent hyperbolically; †to extol or praise extravagantly; to exaggerate.

intransitive. figurative. to slobber over ——: to pay a great or excessive amount of attention to (a person or thing); to show exaggerated enthusiasm…

figurative.

transitive. To heighten excessively.

transitive and intransitive. To pitch too high; to exaggerate; to overstate.

transitive. To exaggerate, overplay.

To exaggerate or embellish.