The phrase "exaggerate the value" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, you might use it in a sentence such as "The salesman tried to exaggerate the value of the product in order to make the sale."
If people exaggerate the value of secret information, they may too readily cede privacy in the interest of national security, even if they value that privacy highly.
S.E.C. officials have said that in the difficult fund-raising environment, there is a possible incentive for firms to exaggerate the value of their portfolios.
Critics say many schools exaggerate the value of their degree programs, selling young people on dreams of middle-class wages while setting them up for default on untenable debts, low-wage work and a struggle to avoid poverty.
Although brokers have been known to exaggerate the value of an apartment to get a listing, Ms. Maitland's listing price of $4.75 million for the 10th-floor co-op on West 78th Street off Amsterdam Avenue turned out to be on the low side, even though, she said, she provided the highest estimated value of several brokers who competed for the listing.
Not by listening to the companies themselves, needless to say: They always exaggerate the value of their technologies.
Wendell argues for reforming disability studies through a more inclusive feminist approach to disablement, namely, one that does not exaggerate the value of strength and independence as she believes masculinist influenced theorizing tends to do (Wendell 1996).
"You might have inflated your income on the application, or exaggerated the value of the property," he said.
The one, Jeffrey Sachs's "The End of Poverty", exaggerates the value of aid, especially in the massive dollops he proposes.
The hype that surrounds such discoveries routinely exaggerates the value of whatever manuscript has surfaced in a dusty attic or musty basement.
They argue that the Port Authority has exaggerated the value of its $1.2 billion offer to Mr. Silverstein and overestimated the risks to its capital budget.
The company in February reduced earnings for the last five years by about $2.9 billion because it had exaggerated the value of assets such as trucks and landfills.
