amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate - to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
Example:- tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery
amplify - increase the volume of
Example:- amplify sound
amplify, magnify - increase in size, volume or significance
Example:- Her terror was magnified in her mind
amplify, blow up, expand, inflate - exaggerate or make bigger
Example:- The charges were inflated