dramatize (Amer.)
v.
adapt for theatrical presentation; exaggerate; add details to, embellish (also dramatise)
Dramatize
dramatize
Verb
1. put into dramatic form; "adopt a book for a screenplay"
(synonym) dramatise, adopt
(hypernym) write, compose, pen, indite
(derivation) dramatist, playwright
(classification) writing, authorship, composition, penning
2. represent something in a dramatic manner; "These events dramatize the lack of social responsibility among today's youth"
(synonym) dramatise
(hypernym) represent
(hyponym) overdramatize, overdramatise
(derivation) dramatization, dramatisation
3. add details to
(synonym) embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatise
(hypernym) overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify
(hyponym) glorify
(derivation) drama, dramatic event
dramatizar
v.
dramatize, adapt for theatrical presentation; exaggerate
Dramatize
(v. t.)
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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