Exaggerate vs Overemphasise - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between exaggerate and overemphasise

is that exaggerate is to overstate, to describe more than is fact while overemphasise is .

(exaggerat)

To overstate, to describe more than is fact.

I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate !

He said he'd slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he's exaggerating . The real number is about ten.

* overexaggerate * overstate

* (overstate) downplay, understate

* exaggeratedly * exaggeratingly * exaggerative * exaggeratively * exaggerativeness * exaggerator * exaggeratory