hyperbolize

American  

[hahy-pur-buh-lahyz] / haɪˈpɜr bəˌlaɪz /

especially British, hyperbolise

verb (used without object)

hyperbolized, hyperbolizing

1. to use hyperbole; exaggerate.

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verb (used with object)

hyperbolized, hyperbolizing

1. to represent or express with hyperbole or exaggeration.

hyperbolize British  

/ haɪˈpɜːbəˌlaɪz /

verb

1. to express (something) by means of hyperbole

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Other Word Forms

• outhyperbolize verb (used with object)

Etymology

Origin of hyperbolize

First recorded in 1590–1600; hyperbole + -ize

Example Sentences

Those earlier visions hyperbolize the romance of cooking.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2022

“It is impossible to hyperbolize what John Madden meant to generations of NFL fans,” NFL Players Association spokesman George Atallah wrote on Twitter.

From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2021

An actor of lesser ability might hyperbolize, turn Lydia and Patti into caricatures of cultish evil and ideological zeal, but not Dowd.

From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2017

While the internet has the tendency to hyperbolize news in order to gain traffic, the public found the news so readily believable because the act of ghosting has permeated our culture.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2016

How often he had heard poor sufferers hyperbolize their suffering!

From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Carroll, Robert S.