hyperbolize

Verb

hyperbolize (third-person singular simple present hyperbolizes, present participle hyperbolizing, simple past and past participle hyperbolized)

1. (archaic, intransitive) To exaggerate, use hyperbole.
2. (archaic, transitive) To represent or talk about with hyperbole.
   • to purchase credit to their judgement, and draw you on to beleeve them, they commonly adorne, enlarge, yea, and Hyperbolize the matter., Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.203
   • But what is this metasubstance that blinks at us from the apex of the morph, and that in Terminator 2 is hyperbolized in the quicksilver substratum of the T-1000?2000, Vivian Carol Sobchack, Meta Morphing, page 123

   Synonyms:

   overemphasize, overstate, stretch, big up, cut it fat, exaggerate, overcharge, overdo, play up, three-sheet