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Exaggerate love with poem full of rubbish (9)

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overstate

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'exaggerate' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'love with poem full of rubbish' is the wordplay.
'love with' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis. I am not sure about the 'with' bit.).
'poem' becomes 'verse' (verse is a kind of poem).
'full of' is an insertion indicator.
'rubbish' becomes 'tat' (low-quality items or material).
'verse' enclosing 'tat' is 'verstate'.
'o'+'verstate'='OVERSTATE'

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(Other definitions for overstate that I've seen before include "Exaggerate, go beyond bounds of truth" , "Exaggerate, make too much of" , "lay it on thick" .)

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