Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To adapt a literary work so that it can be performed in the theatre, or on radio or television.

    dramatisieren

  2. (transitive)To present something in a dramatic or melodramatic manner.

    dramatisieren

    драматизи́роватьdramatizírovatʹ

    represent something in a dramatic manner

Examples

2 sentences

  1. He mesmerized us all with the dramatized narration of his journey.

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  2. Don't dramatize. Everything's fine.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to present something in a dramatic or melodramatic manner:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to adapt a literary work:

Forms

dramatizes, dramatizing, dramatized, dramatized
Base formdramatize · to dramatize
3rd person singulardramatizes
Present participledramatizing
Past simpledramatized
Past participledramatized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydramatize
he, she, itdramatizes

Past simpleLesson

all personsdramatized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave dramatized
he, she, ithas dramatized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill dramatize

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

12 related words
Relateddramatistdramatizationdrama
Deriveddedramatizedocudramatizedramatizabledramatizermelodramatizeoverdramatizeredramatizeunderdramatizeundramatized

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
dramaA1dramaticB1dramaticallyB2dramatistC1drapedraperyB2drastic

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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