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dramatise

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Verb1.dramatise - put into dramatic form; "adopt a book for a screenplay"
authorship, penning, writing, composition - the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"
indite, pen, write, compose - produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"
2.dramatise - represent something in a dramatic manner; "These events dramatize the lack of social responsibility among today's youth"
represent - serve as a means of expressing something; "The flower represents a young girl"
overdramatise, overdramatize - present in an overly dramatic manner; "She is overdramatizing her child's failure in the physics class"
3.dramatise - add details to
glorify - cause to seem more splendid; "You are glorifying a rather mediocre building"
exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overstate, amplify, magnify, overdraw - to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"

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The honour is reciprocal, sir, as I usually say when I dramatise a book.
 
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