Awfulize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To react dramatically or catastrophically to distressing events. intransitive

    "Now, when you awfulize you go beyond that and tell yourself, instead “It's horrible, awful and terrible!” You then mean several things, all of which are clearly unprovable and which any self-respecting Martian with an IQ of 100 could easily see through."

Synonyms

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catastrophize

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"Now, when you awfulize you go beyond that and tell yourself, instead “It's horrible, awful and terrible!” You then mean several things, all of which are clearly unprovable and which any self-respecting Martian with an IQ of 100 could easily see through."

Etymology

From awful + -ize.

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