"hyperbolize" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means to exaggerate something, often for emphasis or humor. Example: He hyperbolized his frustrations about his job into a dramatic story.
Zal is an outsider to the human world because he is without roots, which I merely hyperbolize to mean human existence.
What Doug does for me in this meeting is respect me, by declining to hyperbolize my crap thesis.
Lee Solters, a foxy, flamboyant press agent who cranked up his raspy Brooklyn-accented voice to hyperbolize about Broadway, Hollywood and, for 26 years, Frank Sinatra — not to mention the psychic who summoned the ghosts of the Three Stooges — died on Monday at his home in West Hollywood, Calif.
On the other hand, we have Quentin Tarantino, the court jester of mayhem, making good on the lurking connection between violence and laughter by making violence into its own comedy: hyperbolized, postmodern, extreme.
Collins variously hyperbolized and veiled the prurient insights she had gained from rubbing shoulders with Tinseltown elite in Hollywood Wives (1983; television miniseries 1985) and its various indirect sequels, which included Hollywood Husbands (1986), Hollywood Kids (1994), and Hollywood Divorces (2003).
Loss both alters and hyperbolizes them; it confirms who they've always been while at the same time hideously magnifying their unrelenting personalities.
As a director, Ms. Holden Jones subverts the conventions of the genre not by mocking them, but by giving them exaggerated force and scale: hyperbolizing them into oblivion.
If Congress has such power, he continued, "it is not hyperbolizing to suggest that Congress could do almost anything it wanted".
It gives us innocent faces and heaving breasts, hyperbolizing the sex that always lurks beneath the surface of Austen's astringent presence.
Giant pictures on the wall show Jesse Owens leaving for the Olympics, politicians hyperbolizing, longshoremen praying and, best of all, Gloria Swanson, hands on hips, looking breathtakingly stunning.
"A lot of things were taken out of context and hyperbolized," said Sgt. Mike Wood, the president of the police union in Hartford.
