Definitions for: Dramatize


[v] add details to
[v] represent something in a dramatic manner; "These events dramatize the lack of social responsibility among today's youth"
[v] put into dramatic form; "adopt a book for a screenplay"



Webster (1913) Definition: Dram"a*tize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dramatized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Dramatizing.] [Cf. F. dramatiser.]
To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama;
to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a
novel, or an historical episode.

They dramatized tyranny for public execration.
--Motley.

Synonyms: adopt, aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatise, embellish, embroider, lard, pad

See Also: amplify, compose, exaggerate, glorify, hyerbolise, hyperbolize, indite, magnify, overdramatise, overdramatize, overdraw, overstate, pen, represent, write

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