Synonyms for dramatize
ˈdræm əˌtaɪz, ˈdrɑ mə-dra·ma·tize

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1. dramatize, dramatise, adoptverb

   put into dramatic form

   "adopt a book for a screenplay"

   Synonyms:
   follow, adopt, sweep up, aggrandise, take on, acquire, aggrandize, assume, blow up, take in, embroider, embrace, take up, embellish, lard, take, take over, dramatise, borrow, pad, espouse

2. dramatize, dramatiseverb

   represent something in a dramatic manner

   "These events dramatize the lack of social responsibility among today's youth"

   Synonyms:
   adopt, embellish, aggrandise, pad, lard, aggrandize, dramatise, blow up, embroider

3. embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatiseverb

   add details to

   Synonyms:
   broider, go ballistic, decorate, puff out, detonate, adopt, trudge, have kittens, ornament, slog, embroider, deck, fill out, inflate, puff, lose one's temper, beautify, hit the roof, explode, plod, combust, flip one's lid, flip one's wig, magnify, expand, prettify, amplify, adorn, pad, embellish, lard, fly off the handle, set off, footslog, blow a fuse, enlarge, hit the ceiling, blow up, aggrandise, have a fit, dramatise, tramp, grace, throw a fit, aggrandize, bolster, blow one's stack, fancify, puff up

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How to use dramatize in a sentence?

1. John LewisThe:

   It is good to be in Selma, Alabama, one more time, to take a little walk to try to dramatize the need for the rights of all our people to be able to participate in the democratic process.

2. Bernice King:

   What you're saying is : Whatever is going on is so bad that it's worth engaging in, quote on quote, breaking the law because policies are being used to break people's lives, if putting your body on the line will dramatize how bad it is and get attention to that matter, then you're willing to do that because we're not an insurrection. We're a resurrection -- a resurrection of morals.

3. Marc Morial:

   Why shouldn't the President come to the front lines of the battle, not operate simply in the Rose Garden or in the Oval Office to demonstrate and dramatize for the American people ?

4. Dmitry Peskov:

   I would not dramatize the situation.

5. Jill Soloway:

   When the time came to bring the' Transparent' journey to a close, it was clear that saying goodbye to Maura Pfefferman was our path forward, in this musical finale, we dramatize the death of Maura Pfefferman in an odyssey of comedy and melancholy told through the joyful prism of melody and dance.