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dram·a·tize

(drăm′ə-tīz′, drä′mə-)
v. dram·a·tized, dram·a·tiz·ing, dram·a·tiz·es
v.tr.
1. To adapt (a story or literary work) for dramatic presentation, as in a theater or on television or radio.
2. To present or draw attention to in a dramatic way: The novel dramatizes her disastrous marriage. The demonstration was organized to dramatize the problem of poverty.
v.intr.
To be adaptable to dramatic form: a story that dramatizes well.
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dramatized

(ˈdræməˌtaɪzd) or

dramatised

adj
(Theatre) adapted as a play
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In its strict form the Morality Play was a dramatized moral allegory.
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He had a vivid recollection of White Roses , the novel, and he did not anticipate any keen enjoyment from it in its dramatized form.
Farebrother had not been looking at her with evident admiration, while he dramatized an intense interest in the tale to please the children.
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Polly had never been much to the theatre; and the few plays she had seen were the good old fairy tales, dramatized to suit young beholders, lively, bright, and full of the harmless nonsense which brings the laugh without the blush.
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The above relation is founded on her narrative, which I have not so much dramatized as might be supposed.
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