The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dramatize \Dram"a*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dramatized; p. pr. & vb. n. Dramatizing.] [Cf. F. dramatiser.] 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.
They dramatized tyranny for public execration.
--Motley.
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vb. (en-past of: dramatize)
Usage examples of "dramatized".
And far from becoming milder the more it is used, the more an engram is dramatized the more solid is its hold in the circuits.
He no longer dramatized himself, because rather often he forgot himself entirely.
Stories were often dramatized as well as narrated, but no matter how it was expressed, the story and the teller were always the focal point.
Looking back, I recalled that in the past a great number of facts that had impressed me had been conveyed in highly dramatized articles, such as those in the _American Weekly_, and other facts had been conveyed in fictional forms, such as in the stories I read in _Thrilling Wonder_ and _Astonishing_.
After studying them I was able to perceive the methods by which the authors had dramatized their points.
Looking back, I recalled that in the past a great number of facts that had impressed me had been conveyed in highly dramatized articles, such as those in the American Weekly, and other facts had been conveyed in fictional forms, such as in the stories I read in Thrilling Wonder and Astonishing.
Oh yes," Fulkerson humorously dramatized a return to himself from a pensive absence.
As he now walked along thinking, with a lover's beatified smile on his face, of how Margaret Vance had spoken and looked, he dramatized scenes in which be approved himself to her by acts of goodness and unselfishness, and died to please her for the sake of others.
He had perhaps been insensibly working toward some such perception as now came to him that the great difference between Europe and America was that in Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and that in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.