dramatize

Verb

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

embellish show stage perform adopt pad portray enact lard embroider aggrandize aggrandise dramatise sensationalize play
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Antonyms

minify reduce minimize alleviate diminish lessen
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Hypernyms

write represent pen compose amplify exaggerate

Hyponyms

glorify overdramatize overdramatise

Derivatives

dramatized dramatizing

Examples

The ever importunate murmur, "Dramatize it, dramatize it!" Henry James

...a medium best suited to illumine and dramatize the issues of the times has its product pressed into a mold, painted lily-white, and has its dramatic teeth yanked out one by one. Rod Serling

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be. David Foster Wallace

In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers. José Saramago

Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness. Julian Fellowes

I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize. Sylvia Kristel

Close letter words and terms

dramatistically dramatizable dramatization dramatized news dramatized program dramatized programme