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1. Put into dramatic form
   "dramatise a book for a screenplay"
   - dramatize, adopt
    
2. Represent something in a dramatic manner
   "These events dramatise the lack of social responsibility among today's youth"
   - dramatize
    
3. Add details to
   - embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise [Brit], blow up, dramatize

Derived forms: dramatising, dramatises, dramatised

See also: drama, dramatisation [Brit], dramatist

Type of: amplify, compose, exaggerate, hyperbolise [Brit], hyperbolize, indite [archaic], magnify, overdraw, overstate, pen, represent, write