dramatise

verb

1. represent something in a dramatic manner

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These events dramatize the lack of social responsibility among today's youth

• Syn: ↑dramatize

• Derivationally related forms: ↑dramatisation, ↑drama, ↑dramatization (for: ↑dramatize), ↑drama (for: ↑dramatize)

• Hypernyms: ↑represent

• Hyponyms: ↑overdramatize, ↑overdramatise

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

2. add details to

• Syn:

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

• Derivationally related forms: ↑drama (for: ↑dramatize), ↑aggrandisement (for: ↑aggrandise), ↑aggrandizement (for: ↑aggrandize), ↑embellishment (for: ↑embellish), ↑embroidery (for: ↑embroider)

• Hypernyms:

↑overstate, ↑exaggerate, ↑overdraw, ↑hyperbolize, ↑hyperbolise, ↑magnify, ↑amplify

• Hyponyms: ↑glorify

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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s something with something

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They won't dramatise the story

3. put into dramatic form

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adopt a book for a screenplay

• Syn: ↑dramatize, ↑adopt

• Derivationally related forms: ↑dramatist, ↑dramatisation, ↑drama, ↑dramatist (for: ↑dramatize), ↑dramatization (for: ↑dramatize), ↑drama (for: ↑dramatize)

• Topics: ↑writing, ↑authorship, ↑composition, ↑penning

• Hypernyms: ↑write, ↑compose, ↑pen, ↑indite

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Somebody ——s something

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Did he dramatise his major works over a short period of time?