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单词 hyperbolize
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hyperbolizev.

/hʌɪˈpəːbəlʌɪz/
Etymology: < hyperbole n. + -ize suffix. Compare French hyperboliser.
Now rare.
1. intransitive. To use hyperbole; to exaggerate.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > use figure of meaning [verb (intransitive)] > use hyperbole
hyperbolize1599
1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered ii. 10 Will you hyperbolize aboue S. Gregorie, who is contented to marshall the foure generall Councels?
1632 G. Hughes Saints Losse 52 If I should tell all, I should..seeme to hyperbolize.
1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 90 God in Scripture allows of Titles;..nay, God doth hyperbolize it, and saith of al Powers, You are Gods.
1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric I. xvi. 321 The person..who was under the distracting agitations of grief, might be permitted to hyperbolize strongly.
2. transitive. To express or represent hyperbolically; †to extol or praise extravagantly; to exaggerate.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > exaggerate [verb (transitive)]
flatter?c1225
engregec1386
enhancec1400
extol?1504
extend1509
aggravate1533
exagger1535
blowa1538
amplify1561
exasperate1561
bombast1566
aggerate1570
enlarge1592
rengrege1601
exaggerate1604
magnify1605
hyperbolize1609
to slobber over ——1761
bloat1896
over-heighten1904
overpitch1904
overblow1961
inflate1982
1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 41 Glosses hyperbolizing the flatteries of the Canonists.
1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 26 Of the Fruit or Nuts of these Trees is made the so fam'd Chocoletta, whose virtues are hiperboliz'd upon every post in London.
1797 Monthly Mag. 3 271 He has hyperbolized the Spanish hyperbolical salutation, ‘May you live a thousand years!’
1814 Edinb. Rev. 24 40 Surprising events which were but moderately hyperbolized at the time.

Derivatives

hyˈperbolizing n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [noun] > action of exaggerating
amplifying1553
exaggeration1592
hyperbolizinga1620
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [adjective] > given to exaggeration
overlashing1578
overreaching1579
hyperbolizinga1620
exaggeratory1759
exaggerative1797
dramatizing1808
exaggerating1817
a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. vii. §6. 272 The rhetoricall amplification of hyperbolizing Orators.
1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. v. §89. 291 This had been without hyperbolizing, Mundus contra Athanasium.
1671 J. Webster Metallographia xv. 233 If I gave no credit to their hyberbolizing fancies.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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