Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- intransitive verb To express with hyperbole.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To use hyperbole; speak or write with obvious exaggeration.
- To exaggerate; represent or speak of in a hyperbolical manner.
- Also spelled
hyperbolise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To state or represent hyperbolically.
- intransitive verb To speak or write with exaggeration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
exaggerate , usehyperbole . - verb transitive To represent or talk about with hyperbole.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nov 30th, 2009 at 6: 42 pm deanlo: well he is semi-elitist and so has that sort of holier-than-thou attitude. but, is he actually that narrow minded or did he just hyperbolize for the camera? and then try to redeem himself with the Technicality Card by implying that he was only referring to Manhattan?
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Don't just say what you don't want and then hyperbolize your position.
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To be fair I did hyperbolize Mohler's position as "paddling about in intellectual backwaters," but I think he was less concerned about that unflattering image than he was about the point I was making.
Karl Giberson, Ph.D: The Precarious but Profound Middle Ground In The Struggle Between Religion and Science Ph.D Karl Giberson 2010
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To be fair I did hyperbolize Mohler's position as "paddling about in intellectual backwaters," but I think he was less concerned about that unflattering image than he was about the point I was making.
Karl Giberson, Ph.D: The Precarious But Profound Middle Ground In The Struggle Between Religion And Science Ph.D Karl Giberson 2010
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To be fair I did hyperbolize Mohler's position as "paddling about in intellectual backwaters," but I think he was less concerned about that unflattering image than he was about the point I was making.
Karl Giberson, Ph.D: The Precarious But Profound Middle Ground In The Struggle Between Religion And Science Ph.D Karl Giberson 2010
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To be fair I did hyperbolize Mohler's position as "paddling about in intellectual backwaters," but I think he was less concerned about that unflattering image than he was about the point I was making.
Karl Giberson, Ph.D: The Precarious Middle Ground In The Struggle Between Religion and Science Ph.D Karl Giberson 2010
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To be fair I did hyperbolize Mohler's position as "paddling about in intellectual backwaters," but I think he was less concerned about that unflattering image than he was about the point I was making.
Karl Giberson, Ph.D: The Precarious But Profound Middle Ground In The Struggle Between Religion And Science Ph.D Karl Giberson 2010
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The story line reads like a Manhattan thriller in which any moment the Midtown Tunnel will explode and Abdul will kill his hostages yet does so with a profound focus on the three subplots of New York real estate, an aging couple struggling with an ailing canine, and the media-politician marriage of convenience to hyperbolize the truth.
Heroic Measures-Jill Ciment « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009
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Science eventually catches up with those who hyperbolize about risks, and the public learns to disregard them.
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I thought about those transforming birds, my green "bunny" bag, and how sometimes when we "hyperbolize" things, we are only trying to cover up the authentic Truth.
Archive 2008-12-01 Phil Razem 2008
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