ὑπερβολή ὑπερβολή, ἡ, ὑπερβάλλω a throwing beyond others: an overshooting, superiority, Thuc. excess, over-great degree of a thing, Plat.; in various phrases, χρημάτων ὑπερβολῇ πρίασθαι to buy at an extravagant price, Eur.; οὐκ ἔχει ὑπερβολήν it can go no further, Dem.; εἴ τις ὑπ. τούτου if thereʼs aught beyond (worse than) this, Dem.; ὑπερβολὴν ποιεῖσθαι to go to all extremities, to put an extreme case, Dem.; foll. by a gen., ὑπ. ποιεῖσθαι ἐκείνων τῆς αὑτοῦ βδελυρίας to carry his own rascality beyond theirs, Dem.; ἐπέφερον τὴν ὑπ. τοῦ καινοῦσθαι pushed on their extravagance in revolutionising, Thuc. with a prep. in Adverbial sense, = ὑπερβαλλόντως, εἰς ὑπερβολήν in excess, exceedingly; c. gen. far beyond, τοῦ πρόσθεν εἰς ὑπ. πανοῦργος, i. e. far more wicked, Eur.:— καθʼ ὑπερβολὴν τοξεύσας with surpassing aim, Soph.; καθ. ὑπ. extravagantly, Isocr., etc. overstrained phrase, hyperbole, Isocr., Arist. a crossing over mountains, Xen. (from Mid.) a deferring, delay, Hdt., Dem.