Synonyms and related words :
aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up, burlesque, caricature, dilatation, dilation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, extravagance, extreme, grandiloquence, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflation, inordinacy, magnification, overcarrying, overdoing, overestimation, overexercise, overexertion, overexpenditure, overimportance, overkill, overreaching, overreaction, overstatement, overstrain, overtaxing, overuse, overwork, prodigality, profuseness, puffery, puffing up, sensationalism, strain, stretching, supererogation, superlative, tall talk, tax, touting, travesty