What is the meaning of hyperbolize?

To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth.
- usage: "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
- synonyms: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify

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