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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: draw more money from than is available; "She overdrew her account"
2: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" [syn: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify] [ant: downplay, minimise, minimize, understate]

Merriam Webster's

verb (overdrew; overdrawn; -drawing) Date: 1734 transitive verb 1. to draw checks on (a bank account) for more than the balance <the account was overdrawn> 2. exaggerate, overstate intransitive verb to make an overdraft

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. (past -drew; past part. -drawn) 1 tr. a draw a sum of money in excess of the amount credited to (one's bank account). b (as overdrawn adj.) having overdrawn one's account. 2 intr. overdraw one's account. 3 tr. exaggerate in describing or depicting. Derivatives: overdrawer n. (in senses 1 & 2).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Overdraw O`ver*draw", v. t. [imp. Overdrew; p. p. Overdrawn; p. pr. & vb. n. Overdrawing.] 1. To exaggerate; to overdo. 2. (Banking) To make drafts upon or against, in excess of the proper amount or limit.

Moby Thesaurus

aggrandize, amplify, ballyhoo, belie, build up, burlesque, camouflage, caricature, carry too far, color, disguise, distort, draw the longbow, embellish, exaggerate, falsify, fudge, garble, go to extremes, hyperbolize, inflate, lay it on, magnify, make much of, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, misteach, overcharge, overdevelop, overdistend, overdo, overestimate, overexpand, overextend, overpaint, overpraise, overreach, overreact, oversell, overspeak, overspend, overstate, overstrain, overstress, overstretch, pad, parody, pervert, pile it on, puff, slant, strain, stretch, stretch the truth, swell, talk big, talk in superlatives, tout, travesty, twist, understate, warp, wrench