Praise excessively.

Roget 933: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver^†, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly [U.S.]; bespatter, beslubber^†, beplaster^†, beslaver^†; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue^†; truckle to, pander to, pandar to^†, suck up to, kiss the ass of [Vulg.], pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one's bent; lick the dust.    lay the flattering unction to one's soul, gild the pill, make things pleasant.    overestimate etc. 482; exaggerate etc. 549.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 482: overestimate, overrate, overvalue, overprize, overweigh, overreckon^†, overstrain, overpraise; eulogize; estimate too highly, attach too much importance to, make mountains of molehills, catch at straws; strain, magnify; exaggerate etc. 549; set too high a value upon; think much of, make much of, think too much of, make too much of; outreckon^†; panegyrize^†.    extol, extol to the skies; make the most of, make the best of, make the worst of; make two bites of a cherry.    have too high an opinion of oneself etc. (vanity) 880.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 549: exaggerate, magnify, pile up, aggravate; amplify etc. (expand) 194; overestimate etc. 482; hyperbolize; overcharge, overstate, overdraw, overlay, overshoot the mark, overpraise; make over much, over the most of; strain, strain over a point; stretch, stretch a point; go great lengths; spin a long yarn; draw with a longbow, shoot with a longbow; deal in the marvelous.    out-Herod Herod, run riot, talk at random.    heighten, overcolor^†; color highly, color too highly; broder^†; flourish; color etc. (misrepresent) 544; puff etc. (boast) 884.    ... meer laten zien