doc|u|dra|ma

doc|u|dra|ma
doc|u|dra|ma «DOK yuh DRAH muh, -DRAM uh», noun.
a television dramatization based on facts: »

Popular novels play breezily with the lives of public and semipublic figures. Popular television has followed into the same area, calling the results “docudramas” (New Yorker).

[< docu- + drama]

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