hyperbolize
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of hyperbolize
Example Sentences
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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.
The small but enthusiastic crowd of about 3,200 cheered things that are normally ignored, and the feel of a close finish seemed to take on hyperbolized gravity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2021
She adapted — and hyperbolized — this costume, wearing it while dancing the samba in teeter-tottering platform heels and singing lyrics that are often impossible to parse.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2020
That's the hyperbolized version, but not by much.
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2017
Its early stirrings are apparent in his letter to Pound: the sentences racing to match in number and variety the collections they describe, the grandiose gestures of self-deprecation, the hyperbolized confession of trifling sins.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017
Cheney hyperbolized, hyperventilated and gave rein to hyperactive imagination — “desperation . . . cave . . . neutered” — and the audience at the normally sedate American Enterprise Institute was riled.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2015
Some of their most well-known bits, like “Computer Dating,” came from hyperbolizing their backgrounds, with Jerry emphasizing his Jewish roots and Anne accentuating her Irish-Catholic heritage.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2025
The situation arouses pathos, which Leyner acknowledges before relentlessly hyperbolizing, satirizing and detonating the pathos.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2021
What Diaz is hyperbolizing about -- and the alliance’s reason for being -- is what he considers an unfair subsidy for companies, such as Amazon.com Inc., that sell products over the Internet.
From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 26, 2011
As a director, Ms. Holden Jones subverts the conventions of the genre not by mocking them, but by giving them exaggerated force and scale: hyperbolizing them into oblivion.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2010
Reported by Marsh Clark /Johannes burg and Roberto Suro/Washington * Reagan was hyperbolizing.
From Time Magazine Archive
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