DRAMATIZE meaning: Exaggerate events to create drama

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dramatize: Merriam-Webster
dramatize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
dramatize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
dramatize: Collins English Dictionary
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dramatize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
dramatize: Wiktionary
dramatize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
dramatize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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Dramatize, dramatize: Dictionary.com
dramatize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Dramatize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
dramatize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
dramatize: Rhymezone
Dramatize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
dramatize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
dramatize: FreeDictionary.org
dramatize: Mnemonic Dictionary
dramatize: TheFreeDictionary.com
dramatize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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dramatize: Legal dictionary

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dramatize: Encyclopedia

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dramatize: Urban Dictionary

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▸ verb: (transitive) To adapt a literary work so that it can be performed in the theatre, or on radio or television.
▸ verb: (transitive) To present something in a dramatic or melodramatic manner.

Opposite:

downplay, understate, minimize, de-emphasize

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