dramatize
to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
to express or represent vividly, emotionally, or strikingly: He dramatizes his woes with sobs and sighs.
to express oneself in a dramatic or exaggerated way.
Origin of dramatize
1- Also especially British, dram·a·tise .
Other words from dramatize
- dram·a·tiz·a·ble, adjective
- dram·a·tiz·er, noun
- o·ver·dram·a·tize, verb, o·ver·dram·a·tized, o·ver·dram·a·tiz·ing.
- un·dram·a·tiz·a·ble, adjective
- un·dram·a·tized, adjective
- well-dram·a·tized, adjective
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How to use dramatize in a sentence
But it nicely dramatizes the incentives that all participants in the system will soon face.
He evokes an end of an era and dramatizes the power of the past—standard themes of the American landscape novel.
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When Haywood dramatizes the class struggle he uses class resentment for a social purpose.
A Preface to Politics | Walter Lippmann
By refusing to fly the pirate flag, Misson dramatizes the growing revolt of the poor against a useless nobility.
Of Captain Mission | Daniel DefoeWhoever wrote the poem, it aptly dramatizes the suggestible ethos which Chambers recommends to English artists and their public.
An Explanatory Discourse by Tan Chet-qua of Quang-chew-fu, Gent. | Sir William ChambersThe author does not tell the story of Strether's mind; he makes it tell itself, he dramatizes it.
The Craft of Fiction | Percy LubbockThe word somehow itself in its own unconscious beauty dramatizes the way I feel about it.
The Ghost in the White House | Gerald Stanley Lee
British Dictionary definitions for dramatize
dramatise
/ (ˈdræməˌtaɪz) /
(tr) to put into dramatic form
to express or represent (something) in a dramatic or exaggerated way: he dramatizes his illness
Derived forms of dramatize
- dramatizable or dramatisable, adjective
- dramatizer or dramatiser, noun
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