All hyperbolize synonyms
hy·per·bo·lize
H h verb hyperbolize
- caricature — A caricature of someone is a drawing or description of them that exaggerates their appearance or behaviour in a humorous or critical way.
- boast — If someone boasts about something that they have done or that they own, they talk about it very proudly, in a way that other people may find irritating or offensive.
- color — the sensation resulting from stimulation of the retina of the eye by light waves of certain lengths
- distort — to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- fabricate — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- boost — If one thing boosts another, it causes it to increase, improve, or be more successful.
- brag — If you brag, you say in a very proud way that you have something or have done something.
- heighten — to increase the height of; make higher.
- hike — to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.
- corrupt — Someone who is corrupt behaves in a way that is morally wrong, especially by doing dishonest or illegal things in return for money or power.
- inflate — deflate
- fudge — a small stereotype or a few lines of specially prepared type, bearing a newspaper bulletin, for replacing a detachable part of a page plate without the need to replate the entire page.
- falsify — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- amplify — If you amplify a sound, you make it louder, usually by using electronic equipment.
- exaggerate — Represent (something) as being larger, greater, better, or worse than it really is.
- colour — The colour of something is the appearance that it has as a result of the way in which it reflects light. Red, blue, and green are colours.
- embroider — Decorate (cloth) by sewing patterns on it with thread.
- emphasise — (British) alternative spelling of emphasize.
- emphasize — Give special importance or prominence to (something) in speaking or writing.
- enlarge — Make or become bigger or more extensive.
- exalt — Hold (someone or something) in very high regard; think or speak very highly of.
- expand — explain
- build up — If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
- cook up — If someone cooks up a dishonest scheme, they plan it.
- i — the ninth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.