hyperbolize — Englisches Wörterbuch

Verb

1. To exaggerate, use hyperbole.

   Gebrauch

   • archaisch
   • intransitiv

2. To represent or talk about with hyperbole.

   Gebrauch

   • archaisch
   • transitiv

   Synonyme

   overemphasizeoverstatestretch

   Beispiele

   to purchase credit to their judgement, and draw you on to beleeve them, they commonly adorne, enlarge, yea, and Hyperbolize the matter.

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   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?

Verb

1. to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

   Synonyme

   overstateexaggerateoverdrawhyperbolisemagnifyamplify

   Oberbegriffe

   misinformmislead

   Beispiele

   tended to romanticize and exaggerate this ‘gracious Old South’ imagery