enhancing
verb. improve, embellish
enlarge
verb. make or grow bigger; increase
- add to
- aggrandize
- amplify
- augment
- beef up
- blow up
- boost
- broaden
- build
- bulk
- develop
- diffuse
- dilate
- distend
- elaborate
- elongate
- embroider
- exaggerate
- expand
- expatiate
- extend
- give details
- grow
- grow larger
- heighten
- inflate
- jack up
- jazz up
- lengthen
- magnify
- make larger
- mount
- multiply
- pad
- pyramid
- rise
- slap on
- snowball
- spread
- stretch
- swell
- upsurge
- wax
- widen
exaggerate
verb. overstate, embellish
- amplify
- blow out of proportion
- boast
- boost
- brag
- build up
- caricature
- color
- cook up
- corrupt
- distort
- embroider
- emphasize
- enlarge
- exalt
- expand
- fabricate
- falsify
- fudge
- go to extremes
- heighten
- hike
- hyperbolize
- inflate
- intensify
- lay it on thick
- lie
- loud talk
- magnify
- make too much of
- misquote
- misreport
- misrepresent
- overdo
- overdraw
- overemphasize
- overestimate
- pad
- pretty up
- puff
- put on
- pyramid
- romance
- romanticize
- scam
- stretch
- up
exaggerating
verb. overstate, embellish
- amplify
- blow out of proportion
- boast
- boost
- brag
- build up
- caricature
- color
- cook up
- corrupt
- distort
- embroider
- emphasize
- enlarge
- exalt
- expand
- fabricate
- falsify
- fudge
- go to extremes
- heighten
- hike
- hyperbolize
- inflate
- intensify
- lay it on thick
- lie
- loud talk
- magnify
- make too much of
- misquote
- misreport
- misrepresent
- overdo
- overdraw
- overemphasize
- overestimate
- pad
- pretty up
- puff
- put on
- pyramid
- romance
- romanticize
- scam
- stretch
- up
falsifies
verb. alter, misrepresent
falsify
verb. alter, misrepresent
fudge
verb. fake, misrepresent
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