stretching truth (verb) embroider: exaggerate information
Sinonime: aggrandize,
amplify, blow-up,
build up,
color, distend, dramatize,
elaborate,
embellish,
enhance,
enlarge,
expand, falsify, fudge,
heighten, hyperbolize,
lie,
magnify, make federal case, make mountain out of molehill, overdo, overelaborate, overembellish, overemphasize, overestimate, overstate, pad, play up, puff, romanticize, spread on thick,
stretch, stretch the truth, yeast