stretch, strain, coloring; high coloring, caricature, caricatura†;
extravagance &c (nonsense) 497; Baron Munchausen; men in buckram, yarn,
fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale; fish story, gooseberry [Slang].
storm in a teacup; much ado about nothing &c (overestimation) 482;
puff, puffery &c (boasting) 884; rant &c (turgescence) 577 [Obs.].
figure of speech, facon de parler [Fr.]; stretch of fancy, stretch
of the imagination; flight of fancy &c (imagination) 515.
false coloring &c (falsehood) 544; aggravation &c 835.
V. exaggerate, magnify, pile up, aggravate; amplify &c (expand) 194;
overestimate &c 482; hyperbolize; overcharge, overstate, overdraw,
overlay, overshoot the mark, overpraise; make over much, over the most
of; strain, strain over a point; stretch, stretch a point; go great
lengths; spin a long yarn; draw with a longbow, shoot with a longbow;
deal in the marvelous.
out-Herod Herod, run riot, talk at random.
heighten, overcolor†; color highly, color too highly; broder†;
flourish; color &c (misrepresent) 544; puff &c (boast) 884.
Adj. exaggerated &c v.; overwrought; bombastic &c (grandiloquent) 577;
hyperbolical†, on stilts; fabulous, extravagant, preposterous,
egregious, outre [Fr.], highflying†.
Adv. hyperbolically &c adj..
Phr. excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo [Lat.] [Cicero].
SECTION III.
MEANS OF COMMUNICATING IDEAS