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Verb
Present participle for to exaggerate the importance of something trivial
Present participle for be dramatic
Over-egging the pudding
Present participle for to flatter
Present participle for to (excessively) boast about one's accomplishments, qualities, or possessions
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
Present participle for to extol or praise effusively, and typically excessively
Noun
An extreme exaggeration or overstatement
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Present participle for to exaggerate the importance of something trivial
making a mountain out of a molehill
magnifying
overemphasising
UK
overemphasizing
US
aggrandizing
amplifying
coloring
US
colouring
UK
elaborating
embellishing
embroidering
inflating
overdrawing
overselling
adding colour
dramatising
UK
dramatizing
US
exaggerating
hyperbolizing
laying it on with a shovel
laying it on with a trowel
overpitching
overplaying
overstating
piling it on
stretching the truth
blowing something out of all proportion
drawing the longbow
making a big thing of
making a fuss
making a song and dance about
making too much of something
shooting a line
making a big deal out of something
making a drama out of a crisis
overdoing
blowing up out of all proportion
catastrophizing
padding
overstressing
heightening
stretching
overestimating
puffing
laying it on
putting on
hamming it up
blowing up
distorting
expanding
fudging
enlarging
emphasizing
US
boosting
overvaluing
misrepresenting
building up
misquoting
fabricating
lying
making a production out of
playing up
making a big thing out of
blowing out of proportion
hiking
exalting
overstating the case
emphasising
UK
bragging
boasting
hams up
elaborating on
overdramatizing
making a production of
piling on
misreporting
laying on
bending
straining
emphasizing too much
drawing the long bow
enhancing
overwriting
overcharging
giving someone a sob story
overdoing it
paying extravagant compliments
laying on with a trowel
embellishing the truth
giving fulsome praise
sweet-talking
soft-soaping
sensationalizing
US
gilding
play-acting
melodramatizing
enacting
executing
making a performance of
playacting
playing on heartstrings
presenting
acting
touching up
splashing
tragedizing
expanding on
dressing up
giving color to
producing
staging
performing
sensationalising
UK
playing to gallery
playing to the gallery
burlesquing
showing
camping up
pressuring
overburdening
straining yourself
belaboring
US
driving oneself
fatiguing
overembellishing
overreaching
overusing
overindulging
making federal case
hyping
overtiring
overtaxing
running riot
wearing down
biting off too much
going too far
wearing yourself out
running into the ground
overrating
overloading
making a big thing about
carrying
making a thing of
talking big
going overboard
doing to death
going overboard with
making a thing about
belabouring
UK
overworking
pulling the longbow
falsifying
bigging up
romanticizing
US
making a federal case of
going to extremes
caricaturing
scamming
corrupting
intensifying
prettying up
pyramiding
loud talking
upping
overexaggerating
piling it on about
laying it on thick about
cooking up
laying it on with a trowel about
romanticising
UK
romancing
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Verb
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Present participle for be dramatic
hamming
exaggerating
mugging
overacting
overdoing it
overplaying
chewing the scenery
hamming it up
melodramatizing
tearing a cat
overemphasizing
US
overemphasising
UK
going overboard
overplaying it
piling it on
making a production of
camping it up
laying it on with a trowel
overusing
overstating
overpitching
maximizing
US
overdoing
dramatizing
US
overdrawing
overstressing
stretching
hyperbolizing
magnifying
accentuating
overworking
accenting
showing off
pointing up
blowing out of proportion
getting carried away
laboring at
maximising
UK
dramatising
UK
Verb
▲
Over-egging the pudding
gilding the lily
getting carried away
going over the top
going too far
overdoing it
over-egging the pudding
going overboard
going mad
going to town
Verb
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Present participle for to flatter
complimenting
flattering
adulating
charming
fawning over
glorifying
gushing over
praising
puffing up
smooth-talking
sweet-talking
worshipping
UK
worshiping
US
bootlicking
brownnosing
buttering up to
elevating
humouring
UK
humoring
US
revering
wheedling
brown-nosing
building up
buttering up
cajoling
exalting
overpraising
putting on a pedestal
soothing
stroking one's ego
sucking up to
complimenting excessively
falling all over
fawning upon
ingratiating oneself with
kissing one's feet
playing up to
roosing
rubbing the right way
spreading it on
working over
stroking
soft-soaping
massaging
inveigling
blarneying
blandishing
honeying
courting
working on
snowing
oiling
puffing
toadying
fawning
belauding
groveling
US
grovelling
UK
hero-worshipping
crawling to
creeping to
jollying
softening
catering to
laying it on with a trowel
making up to
coaxing
persuading
fawning on
paying court to
conning
beslavering
sweetening up
getting next to
soaping
kowtowing to
toadying to
wooing
truckling to
curry favouring with
prevailing on
talking into
dancing attendance on
getting round
slavering
currying favour
curry favoring with
sucking up
rubbing up the right way
curry favoring
adoring
venerating
lionizing
US
raving over
lionising
UK
sweet talking
overdoing it
softening up
manoeuvring
UK
beguiling
seducing
luring
enticing
tempting
palavering
eulogizing
US
abasing oneself to
keeping someone sweet
demeaning oneself to
bowing and scrape to
getting on the right side of
prostrating oneself to
grovelling to
entrapping
influencing
tantalizing
US
deceiving
urging
pushing
deluding
inducing
maneuvering
US
misleading
duping
crowding
bantering
decoying
truckling
apple-polishing
kowtowing
fussing
arguing into
tantalising
UK
handing a line
getting around
flannelling
flanneling
cringing before
grovelling before
admiring
commending
smarming around
bowing and scrape before
inviting
scraping
crouching
submitting
licking someone's boots
laying it on
bowing
abasing oneself before
yielding
singing the praises of
falling over oneself for
deferring
praising to the skies
pandering
cottoning
debasing
kneeling
praising to excess
honeying up
eulogising
UK
crawling
smoodging to
stooping
buddying up
cowering
falling on one's knees
paying court
cringing
abasing
creeping
caving in to
expressing admiration for
panegyrizing
paying tribute to
pandering to
lauding
waxing lyrical about
paying blandishments to
making much of
salving
selling
saying nice things about
alluring
winning over
drawing
soliciting
hooking
pressing
attracting
swaying
baiting
betraying
leading on
roping in
getting
worming
bringing round
tricking
captivating
pulling
encouraging
sweeping off feet
coming on
turning on
sucking in
ensnaring
ingratiating
finagling
wangling
importuning
bartering
pressuring
convincing
trapping
mousetrapping
bewitching
prevailing upon
enchanting
steering
arm-twisting
wiling
fascinating
appealing to
kissing-up
bowing and scraping
scratching one's back
kisses up to
talking
jockeying
babying
cosseting
pampering
patting
mollycoddling
petting
spoiling
indulging
fussing over
making
prodding
flattering into
coercing
arguing
reasoning
pressurizing
US
back-scratching
killing
witching
magnetizing
US
pressurising
UK
intriguing
tolling
conceding
making a fuss of
magnetising
UK
leading astray
suckering
whetting the appetite of
giving the come-on to
bringing pressure to bear on
enrapturing
beckoning
fooling
cheating
batting eyes at
giving way
prostrating oneself
bending the knee
giving in
making up
smoodging
leading
dangling a carrot in front of
gulling
dragging
training
roping
pestering
plaguing
teasing
jawboning
bribing
hoodwinking
stringing along
knuckling under
hitting on
drawing in
coming on to
cozening
outsmarting
outwitting
talking someone into something
twisting one's arm
tripping up
catching out
setting up
kissing the feet of
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Verb
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Present participle for to (excessively) boast about one's accomplishments, qualities, or possessions
crowing
boasting
bragging
swaggering
blustering
gloating
vaunting
swanking
trumpeting
gasconading
showing off
blowing
bulling
flaunting
glorying in
parading
rodomontading
triumphing
vaporing
congratulating oneself
exulting
preening oneself
priding oneself
roistering
skiting
babbling
blowing hard
cackling
calling
exulting in
flourishing
gassing
gurgling
mouthing
prating
puffing
strutting
talking big
triumphing over
whooping
rubbing it in
patting oneself on the back
blowing your own horn
blowing your own trumpet
singing your own praises
showboating
jiving
shucking
grandstanding
giving oneself airs
hyperbolizing
hotdogging
shooting the bull
speaking for Buncombe
talking boastingly
exaggerating
overstating
conning
shooting
advertising
advertizing
shovelling
UK
aggrandizing
bullying
faking
slinging
preening
glorying
shoveling
US
congratulating oneself on
sounding off
hugging oneself
blowing smoke
priding yourself on
attracting attention
flattering oneself
flying your own kite
giving a good account of yourself
shooting one's mouth off
reveling
US
revelling
UK
posturing
swelling
rejoicing
putting on airs
bragging about
crowing about
acclaiming
celebrating
delighting
promoting
jubilating
exuberating
joying
flouncing
posing
braying
kvelling
hectoring
lording it
gloating over
boasting about
making much of
puffing up
tooting one's own horn
name-dropping
drooling
swashing
declaring
proclaiming
disclosing
attitudinizing
revealing
divulging
putting on side
esteeming
extolling
revering
trying to make an impression
prancing
overbearing
congratulating
felicitating
presuming
applauding
praising
playing to audience
behaving affectedly
making a spectacle of
drawing attention to oneself
striking an attitude
striking a pose
advertizing oneself
putting on an act
copping an attitude
swaggering around
overvaluing
advancing
hyping
pushing
displaying
flashing
exhibiting
lauding
drawing attention to
pluming
sweeping
pontificating
swashbuckling
brandishing
swaying
sauntering
lording
ranting
looking big
putting on
reveling in
holding head high
parading one's wares
playing to the gallery
patting oneself on the back for
giving oneself a pat on the back for
feeling satisfaction at
piquing oneself on
rejoicing at
piquing oneself in
feeling self-satisfied about
preening oneself on
rejoicing in
feeling proud of
feeling proud about
flattering oneself on
playing to the crowd
giving oneself airs about
showing off about
storming
fulminating
thundering
raving
spouting
roaring
huffing
bulldozing
domineering
threatening
brazening
bridling
bristling
browbeating
protesting
raging
complaining
intimidating
cowing
yapping
wafting
badgering
haranguing
taking delight in
kicking up one's heels
riding the high horse
shooting off one's mouth
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Verb
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Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
affecting
counterfeiting
faking
feigning
pretending
shamming
simulating
acting
assuming
bluffing
dissembling
fabricating
professing
putting on
contriving
imitating
passing for
playacting
making like
playing at
aspiring to
giving the appearance of
making a show of
doing a bit
making a pretence of
making out like
going through the motions of
putting up a front
Verb
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Present participle for to extol or praise effusively, and typically excessively
touting
glorifying
ballyhooing
boosting
praising
puffing
trumpeting
cracking up
crying up
talking up
blowing up
piling it on
bigging up
speaking well of
giving a boost
giving a puff to
Noun
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An extreme exaggeration or overstatement
hyperbole
exaggeration
embellishment
overstatement
embroidery
elaboration
magnification
amplification
overemphasis
inflation
caricature
colouring
UK
coloring
US
embroidering
padding
stretching
overplaying
enlargement
excess
puffery
hype
overkill
auxesis
distortion
metaphor
PR
big talk
purple prose
tall talk
mountain out of molehill
aggrandizement
US
aggrandisement
UK
overestimation
extravagance
enhancement
dramatization
US
dramatisation
UK
emphasis
boasting
overdramatization
whopper
fabrication
ornamentation
fish story
pretension
tall story
exaltation
pretentiousness
gilding the lily
overvaluation
excessiveness
over-emphasis
adornment
varnishing
gilding
over-embellishment
over-elaboration
rant
romance
fancy
jazz
hogwash
falsehood
figure of speech
fantasy
hyperbolism
baloney
flight of fancy
line
stretch
misjudgement
misrepresentation
crock
untruth
misjudgment
yarn
luridness
scandal
melodrama
shock tactics
dressing up
touching up
stretching of the truth
gingering up
jazzing up
heightening
deepening
yellow journalism
tabloid journalism
blowing up
build-up
blowing up out of all proportion
making a big thing out of something
sensationalism
hog
braggadocio
ennoblement
elevation
glorification
tribute
aggrandization
praising
decoration
showiness
ornateness
elaborateness
over-elaborateness
ostentation
addition
digression
deviation
flowery speech
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