dramatizar

v.

to dramatize.

¡no hay que dramatizar! (informal) there's no need for melodrama!, don't exaggerate!

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dramatizar

Conjugation model [REALIZAR], like realizar

► verbo transitivo

1 to dramatize

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VT to dramatize

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verbo transitivo to dramatize

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= dramatise [dramatize, -USA], fictionalise [fictionalize, -USA].

Ex. This article describes how a group of 12-18 teenage volunteers formed a group to dramatise children's books for young children and their parents at a public library.

Ex. In the novel the murders have been committed by counterfeiters, not by Lizzie, and Lizzie herself is fictionalized in terms of prevailing Victorian stereotypes of womanhood.

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verbo transitivo to dramatize

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= dramatise [dramatize, -USA], fictionalise [fictionalize, -USA].

Ex: This article describes how a group of 12-18 teenage volunteers formed a group to dramatise children's books for young children and their parents at a public library.

Ex: In the novel the murders have been committed by counterfeiters, not by Lizzie, and Lizzie herself is fictionalized in terms of prevailing Victorian stereotypes of womanhood.

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dramatizar [A4 ]

vt

1 (Teatr) to dramatize

2 (exagerar) to overdramatize, dramatize

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dramatizar verbo transitivo
1 (dar carácter dramático) dramatize: han dramatizado una obra de Hemingway, they dramatized a work of Hemingway
2 (exagerar) overdramatize: la tía Julia tiende a dramatizar, aunt Julia tends to overdramatize things
'dramatizar' also found in these entries:
English:
dramatize
- role-play

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dramatizar

♦ vt

1. [hechos, problemas] to dramatize

2. [novela] to dramatize

♦ vi

to overdramatize;

¡no hay que dramatizar! we shouldn't overdramatize the situation!

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dramatizar

v/t dramatize

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dramatizar {21} vt

: to dramatize

♦ dramatización nf