dramatizeverb [ T ]
UK usually dramatise uk/ˈdræm.ə.taɪz/us/ˈdræm.ə.taɪz/dramatize verb [ T ] (THEATRE)
When writers dramatize books, stories, poems, etc., they write them again in a form that can be performed.
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Theatre - general words
- break a leg idiom
- double bill
- drama
- dramatic
- immersive
- jukebox musical
- kabuki
- music theatre
- Noh
- opening night
- premiere
- preview
- run
- run and run idiom
- slapstick
- theatre
- theatre in the round
- theatregoer
- thespian
- vaudeville
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Cinema & theatre: casting, roles & scripts
dramatize verb [ T ] (MAKE EXCITING)
disapproving If someone dramatizes a report of what has happened to them, they make the story seem more exciting, important, or dangerous than it really is.
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Exaggerating & playing down
- alarmist
- blow sth out of proportion idiom
- drama queen
- exaggeration
- lard
- lay
- make a meal (out) of sth idiom
- make much of sth idiom
- make sth of sth
- meal
- over-egg the pudding idiom
- overboard
- overplay
- overstatement
- pad
- pudding
- stretch
- stretch the truth idiom
- talk sth down
- understatement
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dramatization
noun [ C ] UK usually dramatisation uk/ˌdræm.ə.taɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌdræm.ə.t̬əˈzeɪ.ʃən/
a dramatization of a novel