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All hyperbolize synonyms

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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.
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