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Dramatize   /drˈɑmətˌaɪz/  /drˈæmətˌaɪz/   Listen
Dramatize

verb
(past & past part. dramatized; pres. part. dramatizing)
1.
Put into dramatic form.  Synonyms: adopt, dramatise.
2.
Represent something in a dramatic manner.  Synonym: dramatise.
3.
Add details to.  Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, embellish, embroider, lard, pad.



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"Dramatize" Quotes from Famous Books



... rear of the magazine, where it has become not only the place, but the stuff of dreams such as men are made of. From month to month, ever since, its reveries, its illusions, which some may call deliverances, have gone on with more and more a disposition to dramatize themselves. It has seemed to the occupant of the Easy Chair, at times, as if he had suffered with it some sort of land-change from a sole entity to a multiple personality in which his several selves conversed with one another, and came and went unbidden. At first, after ...
— Imaginary Interviews • W. D. Howells



Words linked to "Dramatize" :   dramatise, drama, dramatization, glorify, lard, overdramatise, compose, amplify, represent, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, writing, magnify, penning, dramatist, indite, pen, overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, write, composition, authorship



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