hyperexaggerate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]hyper- + exaggerate
Verb
[edit]hyperexaggerate (third-person singular simple present hyperexaggerates, present participle hyperexaggerating, simple past and past participle hyperexaggerated)
- To exaggerate to an extreme degree.
- 2009, Brian Luke Seaward, Managing Stress:
- Learn to hyperexaggerate when describing a situation or story.
- 2018, Derek B. Miller, American By Day, page 97:
- You worry that working together undermines your myth of self-reliance, so you hyperexaggerate its value to mask the fear.
- 2021, Kristin Enola Gilbert, Gregory Matoesian, Multimodal Performance and Interaction in Focus Groups, page 151:
- The first section examines a multimodal parodic performance that hyperexaggerates a quantitative bragging or boasting ritual, and then contrasts that with a normal voicing of more practical evaluation criteria.