(BrE also dramatise) verb
1 [VN] to present a book, an event, etc. as a play or a film/movie:
Jane Austen's 'Emma' was dramatized on television recently.
2 to make sth seem more exciting or important than it really is:
[VN] Don't worry too much about what she said-she tends to dramatize things. [also V]
dramatization, dramatisation noun [U,C]:
a television dramatization of the trial * She has a tendency to dramatization.
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