hyperbolize
verbUK /haɪˈpɜːbəlaɪz/ · US /haɪˈpɝbəlaɪz/
Etymology From hyperbole + -ize.
1
Archaic To exaggerate, use hyperbole.
2
Archaic 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:
- Derived terms
- hyperbolizer