| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Seldom used present participle conjugation of the verb hyperbolize.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (hyperbolize) | 1. To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth.[Wordnet]. 2. To speak or write with exaggeration.[Websters]. 3. To state or represent hyperbolically.[Websters]. 4. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: hyperbolizing, hyperbolized, hyperbolizes, hyperbolizer, hyperbolizers, hyperbolizingly and hyperbolizedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "HYPERBOLIZING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: hyperbolize
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To speak or write with exaggeration.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] (intransitive, now rare) To exaggerate, use hyperbole. (references) | 2: [Verb] (transitive, now rare) To represent or talk about with hyperbole. 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 203: to purchase credit to their judgement, and draw you on to beleeve them, they commonly adorne, enlarge, yea, and Hyperbolize the matter. (references) | |
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