hyperexaggerate

English

Etymology

hyper- +‎ exaggerate

Verb

hyperexaggerate (third-person singular simple present hyperexaggerates, present participle hyperexaggerating, simple past and past participle hyperexaggerated)

1. 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.