transitive. To embellish, esp. with a view to deception; to give a false colouring to, misrepresent. Obsolete.

transitive. To paint, counterfeit.

To represent too favourably; to exaggerate the good points of. Said esp. of painters, or the like.

In various figurative uses. To embellish with rhetorical ornament or with fictitious additions or exaggerations.

transitive. To surpass in depiction; to depict or describe with exaggeration.

To augment in description.

transitive. To paint or depict in an excessive or exaggerated manner. Frequently figurative: to describe in extravagant terms; to overstate.

transitive. To exaggerate in narration; to tell too much or too often. Also occasionally intransitive.

transitive. To colour excessively; (chiefly in extended use) to represent too strongly or in an exaggerated way.

transitive. To exaggerate in the description of (a fact, a person, etc.), or in the telling of (a tale, etc.). Frequently in passive.

To describe or represent dramatically. reflexive. To behave melodramatically.

transitive. To present or report (something) in a sensational, lurid, or melodramatic manner. Also occasionally intransitive.

transitive. To embellish (one's written style) too elaborately.