aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, breaking point, burlesque, caricature, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distension, doziness, dropsy, drowsiness, edema, elongation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, extension, extravagance, extreme, extreme tension, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, gassiness, grandiloquence, heaviness, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflation, inordinacy, intumescence, languor, lengthening, lethargy, magnification, meteorism, oscitancy, oscitation, overdistension, overdrawing, overemphasis, overestimation, overexpansion, overextension, overkill, overstatement, overstrain, overstraining, overstretching, pandiculation, prodigality, production, profuseness, prolongation, protraction, puff, puffery, puffiness, puffing, puffing up, sensationalism, sleepiness, snapping point, somnolence, somnolency, strain, straining, stretch, stringing out, superlative, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tall talk, tension, touting, travesty, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, windiness, yawning

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