Meaning & use
Overexaggerating
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Describing or portraying something as far greater, worse, or more extreme than it actually is.
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Stop overexaggerating — the meeting wasn't three hours long, it was forty minutes.
The tabloid was accused of overexaggerating the scandal for clicks.
A note on using this word
Technically redundant, since 'exaggerate' already means to overstate, but the intensified form is extremely common in everyday speech.
Words with a similar meaning
exaggeratingoverstating
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Words with an opposite meaning
understatingdownplaying
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