Topic: MEDIA
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dram‧a‧tize also dramatise British English
[transitive]
[transitive]1AMTCB to make a book or event into a play or film :
a novel dramatized for television
a novel dramatized for television2 to make a situation seem more exciting, terrible etc than it really is :
Why do you have to dramatize everything?
Why do you have to dramatize everything?3 to make something more noticeable [= highlight]:
This incident dramatized the difficulties involved in the project.
This incident dramatized the difficulties involved in the project. —dramatization
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