HYPERBOLIZE
overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify
(verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; âtended to romanticize and exaggerate this âgracious Old Southâ imageryâ
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