DRAMATIZE

embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise

(verb) add details to

dramatize, dramatise

(verb) represent something in a dramatic manner; “These events dramatize the lack of social responsibility among today’s youth”

dramatize, dramatise, adopt

(verb) put into dramatic form; “adopt a book for a screenplay”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

dramatize (third-person singular simple present dramatizes, present participle dramatizing, simple past and past participle dramatized)

to adapt a literary work so that it can be performed in the theatre, or on radio or television

to present something in a dramatic or melodramatic manner

Source: Wiktionary


Dram"a*tize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dramatized; p. pr. & vb. n. Dramatizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. dramatiser.]

Definition: 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. They dramatized tyranny for public execration. Motley.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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