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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Exaggerate \Ex*ag"ger*ate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Exaggerated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Exaggerating} . ] [L. exaggeratus, p. p. of exaggerare to heap up; ex out + aggerare to heap up, fr. agger heap, aggerere to bring to; ad to + gerere to bear. See {Jest}. ]
1. To heap up; to accumulate. [Obs.] ''Earth exaggerated upon them [oaks and firs].'' --Sir M. Hale.
2. To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; to delineate extravagantly; to overstate the truth concerning.
A friend exaggerates a man's virtues. --Addison.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Exaggerated \Ex*ag"ger*a'ted\, adjective Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth. -- {Ex*ag"ger*a'ted*ly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
exaggerated
adjective
1: represented as greater than is true or reasonable; "an exaggerated opinion of oneself" [syn: {overdone}, {overstated}]
2: enlarged to an abnormal degree; "thick lenses exaggerated the size of her eyes" [syn: {magnified}, {enlarged}]
3: enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; "had an exaggerated (or inflated) opinion of himself"; "a hyperbolic style" [syn: {hyperbolic}, {inflated}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "exaggerated": a bit much, abandoned, aggrandized, amplified, ballyhooed, boundless, disproportionate, egregious, enormous, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, gigantic, gluttonous, grandiloquent, high, high-flown, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immoderate, incontinent, inflated, inordinate, intemperate, magnified, monstrous, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, overbig, overdeveloped, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overmuch, overpraised, overrated, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overvalued, overweening, overwrought, prodigal, profuse, puffed, puffed up, steep, stiff, stretched, superlative, too much, touted, unbridled, unconscionable, undue, unreasonable, unrestrained
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