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Hyperbole

//haɪˈpɜːbəli// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement. rhetoric, uncountable

    "Hyperbole soars too high, or creeps too low, Exceeds the truth, things wonderful to shew."

  2. 2
    extravagant exaggeration wordnet
  3. 3
    An instance or example of such overstatement. countable

    "[…]and when he ſpeakes, / 'Tis like a Chime a mending. With tearmes vnſquar' / Which from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropt, / Would ſeemes Hyperboles"

  4. 4
    A hyperbola. countable, obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English iperbole, yperbole, from Latin hyperbolē, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ, “excess, exaggeration”), from ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-). Doublet of hyperbola.

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