hyperbolise

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

• 🇫🇷Verbe signifiant exprimer ou décrire quelque chose de manière exagérée, souvent pour un effet rhétorique.

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.

   🇫🇷Exagérer

   Synonymes: amplifyembellishembroiderexaggerateinflatemagnifyoverdooverdrawoverstate

   Antonymes: belittleminimizetrivializeunderstate

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