Usually means: Exaggerate facts more than reality.
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  1. stretch the truth: Merriam-Webster
  2. stretch the truth: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. stretch the truth: Wiktionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stretch the truth: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stretch the truth: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stretch the truth: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (stretch the truth)

verb:  (idiomatic) To exaggerate, often to the point where the truth is obscured or lost.

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