When you are expressing something in an exaggerated and ironic way, often to prove a point, can you say that you are hyperbolizing? Could it be used in a way where you could end the statement with it? For example: “No, I'm just hyperbolizing (but there’s some truth to it)”.
Any synonyms for this?
hyperbolic
2 (of language) deliberately exaggerated.
(Oxford Dictionary)
Best Answer
You can. The verb hyperbolize has been so used since the end of the sixteenth century, although the OED says it is now rare.