Learn English – Can you say “hyperbolizing”

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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.