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Meaning of hyperbolize | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1
/haɪˈpɜːbəlaɪz/

Definitions

  1. To exaggerate, use hyperbole.
    archaic, intransitive
  2. To represent or talk about with hyperbole.
    archaic, transitive

Examples

“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?”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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