HYPERBOLISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hyperbolise mean? 

• HYPERBOLISE (verb)
  The verb HYPERBOLISE has 1 sense:

1. to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

  Familiarity information: HYPERBOLISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPERBOLISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hyperbolise    ... he / she / it hyperbolises   
Past simple: hyperbolised   
Past participle: hyperbolised   
-ing form: hyperbolising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

amplify; exaggerate; hyperbolise; hyperbolize; magnify; overdraw; overstate

Context example:

tended to romanticize and exaggerate this 'gracious Old South' imagery

Hypernyms (to "hyperbolise" is one way to...):

misinform; mislead (give false or misleading information to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hyperbolise"):

overemphasise; overemphasize; overstress (place special or excessive emphasis on)

blow; bluster; boast; brag; gas; gasconade; shoot a line; swash; tout; vaunt (show off)

aggrandise; aggrandize; blow up; dramatise; dramatize; embellish; embroider; lard; pad (add details to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something