Münchhausen

[mynkh-hou-zuhn]

noun

1. Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Baron von 1720–97, German soldier, adventurer, and teller of tales.

Other Word Forms

• Munchausenism noun

Example Sentences

In “My Time to Stand,” the memoir of which she is co-author with Melissa Moore, she alleges that Dee Dee Blanchard, who suffered from what is commonly known as Munchhausen syndrome by proxy, isolated her from the rest of their family in order to conceal the fabricated medical conditions and treatments she forced her child to undergo.

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It is a Munchhausen syndrome-type thing?

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Outside Son Abrines, the hill slopes upward, and a landscaped stone walkway leads to Son Boter, a 17th-century manor that was once a boarding house run by the Baroness von Münchhausen.

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Recommended for the grown-up are a focus on Czech genius Karel "Munchhausen" Zeman and Summer Wars, the latest from Mamoru Hosoda.

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The eyewitness accounts read like the tall tales of Baron Munchhausen.

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