Definition
To exaggerate, often to the point where the truth is obscured or lost.
In Context
- "It would stretch the truth, but perhaps not tear it to tatters, to say that World War II was fought over oil."
- "You think they exaggerate sometimes? You think they embellish things, stretch the truth, play loose with the facts?"
- ""And you suspect them of stretching the truth? Or shrinking the truth?""