hyperbolize

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
30
Words With Friends
31
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/haɪˈpɜːbəlaɪz/(UK)
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/haɪˈpɜːbəlaɪz/(UK) · /haɪˈpɝbəlaɪz/(US)

Definition of hyperbolize

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (archaic, intransitive)To exaggerate, use hyperbole.
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verb

  1. (archaic, intransitive)To exaggerate, use hyperbole.
  2. (archaic, transitive)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.”
    “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?”

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Etymology

From hyperbole + -ize.

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