hyperbolise

A verb used to express or describe something in an exaggerated way, often for rhetorical effect.

• 🇩🇪Verb, das verwendet wird, um etwas übertrieben darzustellen oder zu beschreiben, oft um eine rhetorische Wirkung zu erzielen.

1. Exaggerate C1 formal

   To describe something as much larger, better, worse, or more important than it actually is; to overstate.

   • He tends to hyperbolise his achievements in interviews.
   • The media often hyperbolises the risks of new technologies.
   • She hyperbolised the difficulty of the task to avoid doing it.

   🇩🇪Übertreiben

   Synonyme: amplifyembellishembroiderexaggerateinflatemagnifyoverdooverdrawoverstate

   Antonyme: belittleminimizetrivializeunderstate

• hyperbolised past participle
• hyperbolised past simple
• hyperbolising present participle
• hyperbolises third person singular