overstate

Verbs

(v) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
- tended to romanticize and exaggerate this "gracious Old South" imagery
exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, amplify, magnify, overdraw,

Synonyms

exaggerate hyperbolise hyperbolize amplify magnify overdraw

Antonyms

downplay minimise understate minimize

Words of close approximity

overstay

overstated overstatement