| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To act or pretend.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle conjugation of the verb dramatize.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (dramatize) | 1. Put into dramatic form.[Wordnet]. 2. Represent something in a dramatic manner; "These events dramatize the lack of social responsibility among today's youth".[Wordnet]. 3. Add details to.[Wordnet]. 4. To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: dramatizing, dramatized, dramatizes, dramatizer, dramatizers, dramatizingly and dramatizedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DRAMATIZING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1696. (references) |
Specialty Definition: dramatize
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To compose in the form of the drama; or to give to a composition the form of a play. At Riga in 1204 was acted a prophetic play, that is, a dramatized extract from the history of the Old and New Testaments.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] To adapt a literary work so that it can be performed in the theatre, or on radio or television. (references) | 2: [Verb] To present something in a dramatic or melodramatic manner. (references) | |
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| Dramatize | 5 | Dramatize | 5 | |
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