HYPERBOLIZE

overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify

(verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; “tended to romanticize and exaggerate this ‘gracious Old South’ imagery”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

hyperbolize (third-person singular simple present hyperbolizes, present participle hyperbolizing, simple past and past participle hyperbolized)

(intransitive, now rare) To exaggerate, use hyperbole.

(transitive, now rare) To represent or talk about with hyperbole.

to purchase credit to their judgement, and draw you on to beleeve them, they commonly adorne, enlarge, yea, and Hyperbolize the matter.

Source: Wiktionary


Hy*per"bo*lize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hyperbolized; p. pr. & vb. n. Hyperbolizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. hyperboliser.]

Definition: To speak or write with exaggeration. Bp. Montagu.

Hy*per"bo*lize, v. t.

Definition: To state or represent hyperbolically. Fotherby.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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