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Definition of Hyperbolizes
1. hyperbolize [v] - See also: hyperbolize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyperbolizes
Literary usage of Hyperbolizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"... nJ One who hyperbolizes. To HYPERBOLIZE, (hi-per'-bo-lize) vn To speak or
write with exaggeration or extenuation. HYPERBOREAN, (hi-per-bo'-re-an) n. ». ..."
2. The History of British India by James Mill, Horace Hayman Wilson (1858)
"Mistaken in his ideas of the Hindu poet Val raie, and his poem entitled Ramayan,
36, note. hyperbolizes the merit, in representation of the ..."
3. The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1836)
"20; confuted, 36; elder than Josephus, 229; hyperbolizes, 234, (note ];) ib., (note
2;) when he went ambassador to Rome, 236; his account of Pontius Pilate, ..."
4. The Methodist Review (1848)
"... hyperbolizes it) the " ocean," from which proceeded all the other descriptions
of literature. Nor of literature only, including oratory; but, moreover, ..."
5. A Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English by Joseph Emerson Worcester (1831)
"... t. one who hyperbolizes. Hy-pcr-böl'ifönn, a. having the form of a hy-
Hy-per'bc-lize, vn to use hyperboles. ..."
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