Meaning

1 senses

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US)To glorify or inflate the importance of a piece of news; to artificially create a sensation.

    aufbauschen, dick auftragen, dramatisieren

    де́лать сенса́циюdélatʹ sensáciju, сенсационализи́роватьsensacionalizírovatʹ

Examples

1 sentences

  1. John's story was massively bastardized and sensationalized by channels like Fox News.

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Translations

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Forms

sensationalizes, sensationalizing, sensationalized, sensationalized
Base formsensationalize · to sensationalize
3rd person singularsensationalizes
Present participlesensationalizing
Past simplesensationalized
Past participlesensationalized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysensationalize
he, she, itsensationalizes

Past simpleLesson

all personssensationalized

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill sensationalize

Word family

4 related words
Deriveddesensationalizeoversensationalizesensationalizablesensationalizer

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sensationB1sensationalsensationalistsenseA2senselesssensibility
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