as in to exaggerate
to add to the interest of by including made-up details
even if she did hyperbolize her account of an encounter with a bear, it still must have been pretty scary
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Recent Examples of hyperbolize
The filthy talk of collusion, of course hyperbolized by Unsocial Media, again is crawling out of the swamp.
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Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
Yet the internet — the same force that has increased awareness of social-justice movements — has hyperbolized all entreaties to our fragmented attention spans.
—Lauren Oyler, New York Times, 8 May 2018
The show examines stereotypes, hyperbolizes them, then deconstructs them.
—Darren Franich, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2017
Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
Yet the internet — the same force that has increased awareness of social-justice movements — has hyperbolized all entreaties to our fragmented attention spans.
—Lauren Oyler, New York Times, 8 May 2018
The show examines stereotypes, hyperbolizes them, then deconstructs them.
—Darren Franich, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hyperbolize
exaggerate
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The young family were the only people on the block who elected to ride out the storm, believing the stark warnings were being exaggerated.—
Curtis Bunn,
NBC news,
27 Aug. 2025
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The fact that the company exaggerates the job numbers, as well as the true number of states where the plane produces a significant number of jobs does not alter the fact that economic arguments carry a lot of weight in Congressional decisions on weapons procurement.—
William Hartung,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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“Hyperbolize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hyperbolize. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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