"exaggerating" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1846, Gabriel Surenne, A practical Grammar of French Rhetoric, page 264:",
          "text": "Bombastic Style is an affectation in the composition, either in presenting simple or common ideas under sonorous and pompous expressions, or in speaking of things which have but a vain appearance of grandeur in the most exaggerating manner.",
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          "ref": "1864, Paul L. Sandberg, God's Way to Man in Olden Times:",
          "text": "Then there are many men in the world, who, from a sincere desire of doing good, are, to say the least, very exaggerating in their phraseology, exalting mere indications of good into realities; and leaving altogether out of sight the reasoning of St. Paul on the subject, in the Epistle to the Romans, the 3rd chapter and 7th verse.",
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          "ref": "1882, Journal of the Senate of Minnesota Sitting as a High Court of Impeachment for the Trial of Hon. E. St Julien Cox, page 2466:",
          "text": "Now, I say it don't show anything, it is not a material point; but it shows how ridiculous men will be in their testimony, when actuated by violent motives, and it is one thing that I have noticed, gentlemen, that as a general thing lawyers are more ridiculous and more exaggerating when they give testimony than any other class of men.",
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          "ref": "2023, Alison Bellringer, The Bronson Escapades:",
          "text": "Bridget fanned her face in a very exaggerating way.",
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        "Given to exaggeration or serving to exaggerate; overblown."
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