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
Such a large and various cast reflects the scope of a book whose project seems nothing short of dramatizing one of the world’s most unyielding conflicts in a way that shows all sides and takes none.
Rebecca Sacks’s ‘City of a Thousand Gates’ is a kaleidoscopic debut that illuminates the Israeli-Palestinian conflict | Porter Shreve | February 4, 2021 | Washington PostThe goal is to dramatize the former president’s incitement role in a way that even GOP senators cannot avoid grappling with.
Democrats plan a multimedia impeachment trial — to keep GOP senators awake | Greg Sargent | January 21, 2021 | Washington PostA plunge into this often-fatal inextricability is most fully dramatized by the novella that concludes the book.
In Danielle Evans’s ‘The Office of Historical Corrections,’ the sorrows are personal but also deeply historical | Chaya Bhuvaneswar | January 15, 2021 | Washington PostIceberg Slim is just one of the characters that each chapter uses to dramatize its arguments.
Delusions, justice, accountability and freedom in America | Paul Taylor | December 18, 2020 | Washington PostA covid-19 chart that’s been shared thousands of times is dramatizing just how well vaccines against the disease can work and how we might get out of pandemic hell.
The chart that shows how we’ll get back to normal | Niall Firth | December 11, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
The American Apparel adverts are deemed tacky and offensive because they dramatize, brazenly, the sex-drenched time we live in.
In Defense of American Apparel: Why a Hitched-Up Skirt Barely Conceals a Profound Social Confusion | Tim Teeman | August 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt's difficult to imagine anyone better equipped to dramatize these questions than the show's creators.
‘The Leftovers’ Review: A Fever Dream You Can’t Wake Up From | Andrew Romano | June 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBecause it's too cautious to dramatize real problems and too reductive to tackle them realistically.
Generic and Superficial ‘Tyrant’ Amerisplains the Middle East | Andrew Romano | June 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFosse uses poetic dialogue, with rhythmic repetitions and silences, to dramatize life and loneliness.
Nobel Literature Prize Favorites for Dummies, According to the Bookies | Jimmy So | October 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTDrutman goes on the dramatize this elite in a number of ways and to slice and dice the data similarly.
The annual festivities and mysteries will be discussed together because both were intended to dramatize the same beliefs.
The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races | Sanger Brown, IIIt was perfectly natural that he should stage his first love-affair, and when he was jilted that he should dramatize his despair.
The Gay Cockade | Temple BaileyAny author may reserve the right to translate or to dramatize his own work.
The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out | Fred T. HodgsonShe did not even attempt to dramatize herself as the good angel.
The Salamander | Owen JohnsonHow did it happen that she did not attempt to dramatize herself with Lindaberry?
The Salamander | Owen Johnson
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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