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What is the verb for hyperbole?

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hyperbolize
  1. (intransitive, now rare) To exaggerate, use hyperbole.
  2. (transitive, now rare) To represent or talk about with hyperbole.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The left has to realize that it doesn't have to hyperbolize its arguments to win this debate.”
      “Next down, we find a layer of eager believers, who will hyperbolize freely and righteously to maintain the fictions that they cherish.”
      “Tellers of good tales rather tend to hyperbolize the details in order to make the story just a bit better.”
hyperbolise
  1. Alternative form of hyperbolize
  2. Examples:
    1. “To hyperbolise a little, is the coffee house really being reborn as a staging ground for a new form of civility?”
hyperbolises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hyperbolise
hyperbolizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hyperbolize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “As we will see, rather than succumb to the ready temptation to repudiate that linkage, Chesnutt hyperbolizes it.”
      “In three aphorisms McLuhan illuminates, and hyperbolizes, the environmental stunning and processing.”
      “Throughout Blind Man, Himes hyperbolizes the already distorted representations of black life in 1960's sociological literature of the underclass.”
hyperbolised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of hyperbolise
hyperbolized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of hyperbolize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The United States hyperbolized its own epidemic and waged multiple aggressive educational campaigns.”
      “A plethora of unfounded health scare stories warned us of exaggerated or mythical risks, often based on brief, hyperbolized or misinterpreted medical research.”
      “On the other hand, we have Quentin Tarantino, the court jester of mayhem, making good on the lurking connection between violence and laughter by making violence into its own comedy: hyperbolized, postmodern, extreme.”
hyperbolising
  1. present participle of hyperbolise
hyperbolizing
  1. present participle of hyperbolize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This trend of widening and hyperbolizing the negative characteristics of King Carol II follows the line drawn by the Communist leaders namely defaming the Romanian monarchy.”
      “With an online reach in the millions and over 40,000 new leads coming in to the HubSpot sales team each month, it appears Halligan is not just hyperbolizing.”
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