to dramatize

Examples

• All

• A performance could be planned in which groups dramatize the book with student-created scenery and costumes.

  Academic text (2002)

• What has just been stated or summarized will now be shown or dramatized.

  Academic text (2011)

• The supernatural thus serves to dramatize the scientific message, making it spectacular.

  Academic text (2001)

• In fact, the film repeatedly dramatized the costs of helping others.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The storytelling episode of the Thursday evening group dramatizes the effect of the horror tale on the reader.

  Academic text (2001)

• As a result, portions of this film were constructed and dramatized based on the recollections of the participants and available documents.

  Detroit (2017)

• The 1908 Olympics proved another model context for dramatizing American national ideals.

  Academic text (1993)

• Equal parts documentary, horror movie, and nature film, The Legend of Boggy Creek dramatized the story of the monster sightings.

  Boggy Creek Monster (2016)

• Season represents a retrospective attempt on Tayeb Salih's part to dramatize the colonial past through the character of Mustafa Said.

  Academic text (2008)

• The filmmakers decided to dramatize the historical events of the revolution in a new documentary.

Synonyms

A

to adopt

vsto dramatize

3 4.5

To change a book into a play or film

is the same idea but explicitly mentions both plays and films as targets

C

to cinematize

vsto dramatize

• Specialized

8.6

To make a book or story into a film

is broader applying to stage film or other dramatic forms

T

to theatricalize

vsto dramatize

7.6

To make something more dramatic and like a stage show

is about adapting into a staged or filmed dramatic work rather than just exaggerating

How Dramatic

to stage

80 4.1

to dramatize

10 4.1

to adapt

178 3.2

to tell

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology