The Collaborative International Dictionary
overdramatize
overdramatize \overdramatize\ v. t. to present in an overly dramatic manner.
Wiktionary
overdramatize
vb. To dramatize to excess; to make overdramatic.
WordNet
overdramatize
v. present in an overly dramatic manner; "She is overdramatizing her child's failure in the physics class" [syn: overdramatise]
Usage examples of "overdramatize".
The camera had lied, overdramatized the action, darkened the shadows, exaggerated the poverty and ruin.