hyperbolize

To exaggerate, use hyperbole.

Verb

  1. To exaggerate, use hyperbole.
  2. 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.

Forms

hyperbolizes hyperbolizing hyperbolized

Derived

hyperbolizer