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

Derived forms: dramatized, dramatizes, dramatizing

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

Encyclopedia: Dramatize