to dramatize
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4.2
- verb
- /ˈdræməˌtaɪz/
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sensacionalizar
- I'm not trying to dramatize my claim, I just wanna be thorough.
- dramatize the situation
- dramatize the conflict
- dramatize the tensions
I think Peter Bogosian is just dramatizing what we already see.
- I think Peter Bogosian is just dramatizing what we already see.
- I'm I'm not trying to dramatize a situation that doesn't need to be.
- So that dilemma, it's all part of dramatizing your story.
- I think it explains so much about why we dramatise reality.
- And we So we want to spend most of our page count dramatizing that struggle.
- Ascetic individualism means one person engaging in practices that dramatize the renunciation of the world.
- I it actually seems very much up my alley to like air on the side of over dramatizing things.
- Ideas need to be embodied, arguments need to be dramatized, and discoveries need to be felt as well as explained and defended.
- So the recomposition of the playing field is dramatized in some sense through that imperfect command of the English language.
- So love stories dramatize not only a process of healing our own mind, but what the effects of that healing can be.
- But if you over dramatize that, we're actually seeing smokers who quit and switched, going back to cigarettes and being less motivated.
- And so that we could dramatize the thing that he desperately wanted on its headstone and the thing that he would love to never be known for?
Examples
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You know, dramatize them in a way that makes them compelling.
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By opening the meetings, Presidents Bush and Gorbachev dramatized the importance of the conference.
Academic text (1994) -
I was like, Oh my God, way to like dramatize that.
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Oh, my God, you dramatize it so much.
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..but the congressman feels it will dramatize his message.
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So love stories dramatize not only a process of healing our own mind, but what the effects of that healing can be.
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A Man of the People dramatizes the material conditions of such reduced opportunities.
Academic text (2017) -
And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
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But it is the life of one other orator that even more vividly dramatizes this predicament.
Academic text (1995) -
She tends to dramatize her stories to make them more entertaining for her friends.
Synonyms
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3.1
To say something is larger, better, or worse than it really is
47
4.2
To make something seem more important or bigger than it really is
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4.6
To make something seem more important or serious than it really is
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3.4
To make something seem larger or more important than it is
19
6.1
To add extra details to a story, sometimes making it less true
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6.5
To add extra, unnecessary details to make something seem bigger or better
12
6.8
To make stories seem more exciting than they are
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5.8
To make someone or something look more attractive and exciting than they really are
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4.3
Make something seem more important or impressive than it is
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5.6
To make something seem bigger or more important than it really is
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9.5
To make something seem more important by adding details or exaggerating
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5.2
Act in an exaggerated way that makes a performance feel unnatural
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3.7
To make something seem more important or bigger than it is
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5.5
To add extra details to a story that often make it less true
3
6.6
Describe something as more serious or emotional than it really is
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5.1
Make something seem much bigger or more important than it is
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7.7
To add extra details to speech or writing to make it more interesting
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7.9
To make something seem much bigger or more important than it really is
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6.3
Make something seem more attractive than it really is
To make something seem more emotional and dramatic than it is
To make something more dramatic and like a stage show
To make a story sound more exciting or important than it really is
Describe something as more important or impressive than it really is
To make something seem more sentimental or fake than it really is
Antonyms
How Exaggerated
- Literature
12
6.8
15
4.2
- US
397
3.7
∞
1.0
18
5.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dramatize comes from drama ('a story acted on stage') and the ending -ize meaning 'to make', so it simply means 'to make into a drama'. That's why to dramatize something can also mean to make it seem more exciting or serious, as if it were happening 'on stage'.