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Dramatize v. t. (past & past part. dramatized; pres. part. dramatizing) 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."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... would be something poorer and thinner than he had yet known, and that he could not endure to forego it. Somehow he must manage to see the girl and make her acquaintance. He did not know how it could be contrived, but it could certainly be contrived, and he began to dramatize their meeting on these various terms. It was interesting and it was delightful, and it always came, in its safe impossibility, to his telling her that he loved her, and to her consenting to be his wife. He resolved to take no chance of losing her, but to remain awake, and somehow see her before ...

— A Pair of Patient Lovers • William Dean Howells

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Words linked to "Dramatize" : composition, penning, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolise, aggrandize, drama, overdramatize, dramatization, aggrandise, overdramatise, lard, compose, overstate, pad, indite