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dramatize
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[ verb ] represent something in a dramatic manner
Synonyms Examples "These events dramatize the lack of social responsibility among today's youth" Used in print (The Rev. John A. O'Brien, "Let's Take Birth Control...)These incidents , typical of many others , dramatize the distressing fact that no controversy during the last several decades has caused more tension , rancor and strife among religious groups in this country than the birth-control issue . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (writing) put into dramatic form
Examples "adopt a book for a screenplay" Used in print (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner 's chief concern is social criticism , we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil_War . |
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[ verb ] add details to
Synonyms pad embellish aggrandise aggrandize blow_up dramatise lard embroider Used in print (Booth Hemingway and Stuart H. Brown,...)It may be true that pool lighting dramatizes an evening scene , but lights also attract all the insect life for miles around . Related terms |
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