hyperbolize
To exaggerate, use hyperbole.
Verb
- To exaggerate, use hyperbole.
- 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. - , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.203
- But what is this metasubstance that blinks at us from the apex of the morph, and that in Terminator 2 is hyperbolized in the quicksilver substratum of the T-1000? - 2000, Vivian Carol Sobchack, Meta Morphing, page 123:
Synonyms: overemphasize overstate stretch big up cut it fat exaggerate hyperbolize overcharge overdo play up three-sheet
Origin
Etymology tree English hyperbole Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English hyperbolize From hyperbole + -ize.