exaggerate

Verb

• do something to an excessive degree
  • He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups
    

• to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
  • tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  overdo , overstate , overdraw , hyperbolize , hyperbolise , magnify , amplify
• Antonyms: 
  understate , minimize , minimise , downplay