hyperbolize
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
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
But their aim is the same: to drag resplendent nature indoors to hyperbolize and civilize its beauty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2018
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
How often he had heard poor sufferers hyperbolize their suffering!
From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Carroll, Robert S.
When you discuss the hyperbolized figures in pro wrestling history, “Superstar” Billy Graham has to be in the conversation.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2023
That's the hyperbolized version, but not by much.
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2017
If Mr. Gold hyperbolized at work and drove press-bus drivers to distraction with his temper, he was apparently no better at home.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2017
Both are forms of hyperbolized touch, making more of the stimulation than the stimulation alone would suggest was plausible.
From The New Yorker ● May 16, 2016
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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