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Dramatizing

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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dramatizing

vb. (present participle of dramatize English)

Usage examples of "dramatizing".

When dramatizing, the individual is like an actor playing his dictated part and going through a whole series of irrational actions.

It is a good term because it describes (although the dictionary did not mean it to) the intent of the organism when dramatizing an engram.

This simply removes the area which is busy dramatizing in the physical line.

The father and mother, in dramatizing their own engrams around sick or injured children, pass them along just as certainly as if those engrams were bacteria.

To his disgust he realized that he was now dramatizing not the death of Scotty but his own grief.

In fact, unconsciously dramatizing the difference between the two, he had made it plain to Elizabeth (without ever directly saying so) that if she wanted discreetly to take a lover she could, and he rather suspected that she had for lately she had been unusually relaxed and easy with him, even in private.

I was anything but a proper Athmore lady, and such dramatizing was better left to Alicia Daven.

What they were dramatizing when they stayed in their shuttered booths was that they, as Martian veterans, had already done more than enough to put the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent on its feet.

Then abandoning the sweet sentiment of the distant and improbable death of Kamau, I thought what a pleasure it would be to shoot David Garrick in the behind, just to see the look on his face, sometime when he was dramatizing a stalk, and, just then, we put up another flock of guineas.

Garrick was sitting straight up, dramatizing his awakeness, and the old man was trying to see the road.