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hyperbolize (verb), hyperbolizes; hyperbolized; hyperbolizing
To use deliberate and obvious exaggerations about something for effect: Mark obviously hyperbolized about how he was mistreated when he didn't have enough money to pay for all of the books that he wanted to buy from the bookstore.
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hyperbolized
1. Expressed with exaggeration or an over statement.
2. In rhetoric or speaking, amplification; a representation of things beyond the truth; hyperbolical representation, whether of good or evil.
3. In painting, a method of giving a representation of things too strong for the life.
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