"hyperbole" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "hyperbole",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "hyperboles",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She told Leo her father had cooked enough food to feed an army. Leo thought that was just hyperbole until HE saw the food."
        },
        {
          "text": "Marissa is the queen of hyperbole. Today she told me, \"If I don't get those new shoes I'll just die. And I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Hyperbole is exaggeration. It is a type of figurative language commonly used in everyday speech, poetry, and literature. It makes something sound much better or much worse than it really is."
      ],
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      "ipa": "/haɪˈpɝːbəli/"
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  "word": "hyperbole"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hyperbole",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hyperboles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns",
        "Uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She told Leo her father had cooked enough food to feed an army. Leo thought that was just hyperbole until HE saw the food."
        },
        {
          "text": "Marissa is the queen of hyperbole. Today she told me, \"If I don't get those new shoes I'll just die. And I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Hyperbole is exaggeration. It is a type of figurative language commonly used in everyday speech, poetry, and literature. It makes something sound much better or much worse than it really is."
      ],
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        "countable & uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
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