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What is another word for
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Present participle for to describe or express in too exaggerated terms
Present participle for to alter something from its true state, typically to deceive
Present participle for to tell a lie or something that is untrue
Present participle for to give greater praise than due
Present participle for to (excessively) talk up one's accomplishments, qualities, or possessions
Present participle for to mimic, typically humorously
Present participle for to react too much or too intensely
Present participle for to regard something as special or ideal, especially unjustifiably
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
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Present participle for to describe or express in too exaggerated terms
overstating
embellishing
magnifying
embroidering
overdoing
overplaying
amplifying
overemphasising
UK
overemphasizing
US
inflating
hyperbolizing
elaborating
colouring
UK
dramatising
UK
dramatizing
US
expanding
padding
heightening
coloring
US
overdrawing
overstressing
stretching
distorting
enlarging
fudging
boosting
emphasising
UK
emphasizing
US
overvaluing
aggrandizing
overestimating
catastrophizing
falsifying
misrepresenting
misreporting
intensifying
overselling
exalting
fabricating
pyramiding
lying
puffing
boasting
bragging
misquoting
overpitching
hiking
romanticising
UK
romanticizing
US
corrupting
upping
overexaggerating
caricaturing
romancing
scamming
laying it on thick
building up
elaborating on
making too much of something
piling it on
stretching the truth
putting on
making a big thing of
adding colour
making a federal case of
laying it on with a trowel
blowing something out of all proportion
blowing up out of all proportion
laying it on with a shovel
laying on
making a production out of
drawing the longbow
making a mountain out of a molehill
shooting a line
cooking up
blowing out of proportion
going to extremes
loud talking
piling it on about
prettying up
laying it on thick about
bigging up
making a drama out of a crisis
laying it on with a trowel about
enhancing
augmenting
increasing
blowing up
hamming it up
playing up
accentuating
escalating
extending
deepening
overacting
swelling
overrating
strengthening
widening
aggravating
hyping
stressing
touching up
making a big thing out of
multiplying
melodramatizing
gilding
stepping up
overdramatizing
belabouring
UK
raising
belaboring
US
dressing up
redoubling
compounding
fleshing out
overdoing it
varnishing
beefing up
exacerbating
adding to
pointing up
making a production of
maximizing
US
intensating
advancing
worsening
accelerating
rising
hamming
maximising
UK
laboring
US
labouring
UK
reinforcing
straining
accenting
highlighting
consolidating
underlining
broadening
making worse
dwelling on
laying it on
pumping up
piling on
harping on
jacking up
chewing the scenery
tearing a cat
hiking up
amping up
attaching too much importance to
running up
attaching too much weight to
overusing
overpraising
spreading
acting
ballooning
overworking
mounting
emoting
developing
overembellishing
spinning
burlesquing
mugging
mushrooming
supplementing
stoking
quickening
supersizing
dilating
puffing up
brightening
drawing the long bow
sharpening
filling out
enlarging on
impressing
expanding on
hams up
making federal case
jazzing up
annexing
inflaming
snowballing
making a big thing about
rousing
making a big deal out of something
going overboard
overstating the case
marking up
expounding on
harping on about
going on
laying too much emphasis on
placing too much emphasis on
driving home
going on about
jumping up
bending
interlarding
blowing up out of proportion
expounding
detailing
expressing emotion
making a mountain out of
evolving
giving details
emphasizing too much
magnifying importance
allowing too much for
distending
explicating
overelaborating
making a song and dance about
making a fuss
sweetening
laboring at
getting carried away
filling
bloating
concentrating
overwriting
overcharging
giving someone a sob story
lifting
hastening
adding detail to
adding flesh to
bettering
camping it up
overplaying it
promoting
acclaiming
festering
performing
exaggerating information
pushing up
stretching a point
applauding
praising
bumping up
putting up
giving substance to
shooting up
fetching up
sending through the roof
goosing up
driving up
swelling up
staging
playacting
presenting
executing
sensationalizing
US
splashing
producing
showing
sensationalising
UK
idealizing
US
overreaching
gaining strength
picking up
complicating
overloading
whetting
heaping on
lightening
adding fuel
setting off
darkening
toning up
heating up
pouring it on
pointing
spiking
play-acting
soft-soaping
laying too much stress on
adding insult to injury
rubbing salt in the wound
adding fuel to the flames
adding fuel to the fire
fanning the flames of
idealising
UK
gracing
coating
burgeoning
growing
overcalculating
going on and on about
going over the top about
adding
paying extravagant compliments
embellishing the truth
sweet-talking
giving fulsome praise
adorning
decking
enriching
proliferating
expatiating
laying on with a trowel
playing to gallery
playing to the gallery
bourgeoning
ornamenting
garnishing
beautifying
bedecking
going overboard with
making a performance of
appreciating
plating
begilding
painting
accumulating
giving color to
climbing
talking big
booming
playing on heartstrings
gaining
going too far
waxing
making a thing of
turning up
making a thing about
making much of
souping up
travestying
theatricalizing
soaring
building
progressing
thickening
gingering up
doubling
tripling
foregrounding
furthering
upsurging
sugar-coating
prolonging
underscoring
spotlighting
teeming
swarming
featuring
pullulating
punctuating
rolling up
pressing
illuminating
chewing up the scenery
slapping on
tacking on
growing quickly
italicizing
US
italicising
UK
putting emphasis on
focusing attention on
calling attention to
turning spotlight on
drawing attention to
bringing attention to
laying emphasis on
bringing to the fore
giving prominence to
more ❯
“Another problem I have is with people who grossly
exaggerate
minor ailments just to get extended time off work.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to alter something from its true state, typically to deceive
falsifying
misrepresenting
distorting
perverting
fudging
misstating
manipulating
altering
faking
cooking
doctoring
warping
twisting
garbling
coloring
US
misinterpreting
changing
rigging
slanting
bending
fabricating
fiddling
forging
misrelating
misreporting
lying
fixing
massaging
prevaricating
deceiving
belying
equivocating
colouring
UK
fibbing
adulterating
conning
misquoting
embroidering
embellishing
corrupting
paltering
counterfeiting
contorting
debasing
vitiating
promoting
glossing
deaconing
tampering with
putting a spin on
trumping up
faking it
framing up
overstating
disguising
overdrawing
magnifying
straining
padding
quoting out of context
taking out of context
giving a false account of
juggling
spinning
patching
dissembling
interfering with
tinkering with
fiddling with
cooking up
misspeaking
biasing
US
biassing
UK
varnishing
overdoing
dramatizing
US
enhancing
hyperbolizing
stretching the truth
airbrushing
poisoning
skewing
confusing
romanticizing
US
dramatising
UK
romanticising
UK
angling
mangling
snowing
miscoloring
concealing
stretching
puffing
dressing
cloaking
masking
travestying
parodying
elaborating on
glossing over
building up
giving a false idea of
covering up
passing off
blowing smoke
modifying
transforming
concocting
meddling with
messing about with
feigning
misconstruing
amending
making up
muddling
mistranslating
misrendering
coining
influencing
cooking the books
doctoring up
weighting
prejudicing
giving a false impression of
weighing
misleading
tampering
slurring
moulding
UK
shaping
molding
US
jumbling
obscuring
blurring
mixing up
twisting around
revamping
reworking
revising
editing
shuffling
trimming
rearranging
dissimulating
subverting
cutting
alloying
desecrating
pretending
finagling
flimflamming
diddling
affecting
making adjustments to
making changes to
making alterations to
performing magic
changing round
simulating
devising
hatching
varnishing over
touching up
giving a false picture of
telling a white lie
telling untruth
creating out of thin air
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to tell a lie or something that is untrue
fibbing
lying
prevaricating
fabricating
misrepresenting
falsifying
faking
equivocating
deceiving
pretending
conning
dissimulating
dissembling
feigning
paltering
inventing
concocting
perjuring
jiving
kidding
planting
telling stories
telling untruths
stretching the truth
departing from the truth
telling a lie
forswearing oneself
making up a story
inventing a story
not telling the truth
trumping up
making up
telling a terminological inexactitude
creating fiction
telling a fib
speaking with forked tongue
pulling the wool over someone's eyes
telling a little white lie
pulling someone's leg
misleading
deluding
bluffing
hoodwinking
misinforming
hoaxing
misspeaking
misstating
misguiding
beguiling
duping
tricking
bulling
fudging
overdrawing
perverting
snowing
misinstructing
gaslighting
distorting
forswearing
telling a falsehood
telling an untruth
stringing along
concocting a story
faking it
having on
saying something untrue
perjuring oneself
putting on the wrong track
breaking promise
committing perjury
bearing false witness
throwing off the scent
putting up a front
putting on
sending on a wild goose chase
leading astray
BSing
telling a white lie
lacking candor
giving the wrong impression
fooling
misdirecting
bamboozling
snookering
suckering
cozening
buffaloing
burning
sucking in
doing a number on
faking out
taking for a ride
leading on
taking in
leading up the garden path
forging
simulating
hatching
scamming
disinforming
telling untruth
swindling
bilking
hosing
telling lies
shafting
inveigling
cheating
hornswoggling
gaffing
creating out of thin air
defrauding
outfoxing
having
humbugging
spoofing
propagandizing
US
gammoning
juggling
betraying
mousetrapping
outwitting
giving someone a bum steer
spinning a yarn
gulling
baiting
lying to
propagandising
UK
victimising
UK
covering up
pulling one's leg
putting up smoke screen
ripping off
putting on an act
giving wrong information to
catching
ensnaring
pulling a swifty on
leading down the garden path
double-crossing
pulling a fast one on
putting on false front
wrong steering
victimizing
US
roping in
dreaming up
conjuring up
entrapping
taking advantage of
playing for a sucker
diddling
lying under oath
swearing falsely
illuding
devising
rooking
bunking
overreaching
playing trick on
putting one over on
enmeshing
entangling
leading up garden path
imposing on
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to give greater praise than due
overrating
overvaluing
overestimating
overselling
glorifying
overpraising
overesteeming
overprizing
overreckoning
assessing too highly
rating too highly
exaggerating the worth of
praising too highly
exaggerating the merits of
thinking too highly of
thinking too much of
prizing too highly
expecting too much of
Verb
▲
Present participle for to (excessively) talk up one's accomplishments, qualities, or possessions
boasting
bragging
crowing
swaggering
gloating
blustering
vaunting
swanking
gasconading
grandstanding
bulling
strutting
blowing
flaunting
vaporing
showboating
skiting
puffing
aggrandizing
triumphing
overstating
preening
advertising
advertizing
pluming
showing off
congratulating oneself
talking big
glorying in
blowing your own horn
flattering oneself
blowing smoke
patting oneself on the back
preening oneself
blowing hard
exulting in
blowing your own trumpet
giving oneself airs
congratulating oneself on
laying it on thick
flying your own kite
hugging oneself
singing your own praises
giving a good account of yourself
shooting one's mouth off
exulting
flourishing
conning
faking
bullying
attracting attention
prating
rodomontading
parading
roistering
mouthing
bragging about
crowing about
braying
declaring
proclaiming
hyperbolizing
hotdogging
disclosing
revealing
divulging
exhibiting
shooting the bull
speaking for Buncombe
talking boastingly
displaying
drawing attention to
flashing
celebrating
hyping
swelling
flattering
piquing
promoting
acclaiming
pushing
lauding
priding
presuming
extolling
boasting about
puffing up
reveling in
holding head high
gloating over
making much of
giving oneself airs about
showing off about
trumpeting
whooping
gassing
triumphing over
priding oneself
rubbing it in
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to mimic, typically humorously
parodying
mimicking
mocking
caricaturing
imitating
burlesquing
satirising
UK
satirizing
US
doing
impersonating
aping
lampooning
ridiculing
spoofing
travestying
copying
deriding
miming
distorting
perverting
misrepresenting
roasting
disparaging
sending up
making fun of
taking off
poking fun at
laughing at
taking the mickey
putting on
doing an impression of
doing a takeoff of
taking the piss out of
making a monkey out of
personating
playing
monkeying
representing
teasing
portraying
dittoing
enacting
emulating
taunting
parroting
mirroring
doing like
making like
performing
acting
simulating
copycatting
ragging
guying
interpreting
ribbing
joshing
faking
going like
affecting
posing as
shamming
personifying
acting like
scoffing at
jeering at
jibing at
making sport of
poking mullock at
making jokes about
kidding
chaffing
razzing
twitting
masquerading as
quizzing
characterizing
US
dramatizing
US
playing a part
characterising
UK
dramatising
UK
playing act
acting out
putting on an act
winding up
ragging on
making a monkey of
slinging off at
goofing on
feigning
assuming
echoing
pantomiming
pretending
pasquinading
japing
scorning
repeating
passing oneself off as
pretending to be
reflecting
embodying
rallying
doing an impersonation of
strutting
emoting
starring
rotting
smoking
mugging
joking
taking part
laughing
playing gig
playing part
playing role
treading the boards
sneering at
playing the part of
pastiching
hoking
reproducing
counterfeiting
playing on
making a mockery of
squibbing
railing
pillorying
making fun
flouting
chiacking
bantering
treating contemptuously
treating with contempt
tormenting
making a fool of
appearing
following
playacting
going over
doing a turn
making debut
rehearsing
going on
bringing down the house
hamming it up
putting it over
hamming
stooging
smiling at
sniggering at
heaping scorn on
pooh-poohing
snickering at
acting as
jibing
doing likewise
modeling after
patterning after
doing an impression
following in footsteps
performing as
trying to be like
epitomizing
US
modelling
UK
modeling
US
amusing
jollying
gagging
hazing
fooling
jeering
pulling someone's chain
quipping
pranking
funning
pulling someone's leg
flipping
messing around
jiving
gibing
wisecracking
jesting
entertaining
diverting
doing a take-off
following example
following the example of
behaving like
following suit
typifying
incarnating
taking leaf out of book
epitomising
UK
depicting
taking the role of
appearing as
acting the part of
professing to be
passing off
purporting to be
taking the part of
representing oneself as
dressing as
acting a part
doubling as
playing a role
assuming character
heckling
play-acting
playing to the gallery
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to react too much or too intensely
overreacting
overdramatizing
overplaying
overstretching
reacting disproportionately
acting irrationally
getting overexcited
going over the top
getting upset over nothing
going too far
reacting excessively
hitting the panic button
getting things out of proportion
making a big deal
making something out of nothing
pressing the panic button
pushing the panic button
making a mountain out of a molehill
blowing things out of all proportion
blowing up out of all proportion
Verb
▲
Present participle for to regard something as special or ideal, especially unjustifiably
romanticising
UK
romanticizing
US
idealising
UK
idealizing
US
glamorising
UK
glamorizing
US
glorifying
glamourizing
fetishizing
magnifying
rhapsodising
UK
rhapsodizing
US
exalting
idolising
UK
idolizing
US
overemphasising
UK
overemphasizing
US
sentimentalising
UK
sentimentalizing
US
venerating
apotheosizing
deifying
glamouring up
making glamorous
putting on a pedestal
thinking romantically
painting a rosy picture of
viewing through rose-tinted glasses
looking at through rose-colored glasses
giftwrapping
varnishing
embellishing
dressing up
fantasizing
US
gushing
swooning
lying
dreaming
daydreaming
mooning
romancing
fantasising
UK
making up stories
telling stories
letting your imagination run away with you
stretching the truth
building castles in the air
ennobling
admiring
worshipping
UK
worshiping
US
looking at something through rose-tinted spectacles
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
simulating
feigning
faking
shamming
affecting
pretending
dissembling
assuming
imitating
acting
counterfeiting
bluffing
professing
posing
playing
aping
copying
doing
fabricating
mirroring
playacting
reproducing
lying
misrepresenting
parroting
disguising
concocting
prevaricating
equivocating
inventing
pirating
deceiving
cheating
creating
featuring
resembling
suggesting
putting on
passing for
putting on an act
giving the appearance of
acting like
acting out
knocking off
doing like
taking off
conjuring up
doing a take-off
mocking up
going through the motions of
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