hyperexaggerate

present singular third person hyperexaggerates · participle present hyperexaggerating · participle past hyperexaggerated · past hyperexaggerated

1. To exaggerate to an extreme degree.

   Learn to hyperexaggerate when describing a situation or story.

   2009, Brian Luke Seaward, Managing Stress

   2 more examples

   You worry that working together undermines your myth of self-reliance, so you hyperexaggerate its value to mask the fear.

   2018, Derek B. Miller, American By Day, page 97

   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.

   2021, Kristin Enola Gilbert, Gregory Matoesian, Multimodal Performance and Interaction in Focus Groups, page 151