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HYPERBOLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extravagant exaggeration
Synonyms:
exaggeration; hyperbole
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("hyperbole" is a kind of...):
figure; figure of speech; image; trope (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)
Derivation:
hyperbolic (enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness)
hyperbolize (to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth)
