Lexic.us

Definition of Dramatise

1. Verb. Put into dramatic form. "Did he dramatise his major works over a short period of time?"; "Adopt a book for a screenplay"

2. Verb. Represent something in a dramatic manner. "These events dramatize the lack of social responsibility among today's youth"

3. Verb. Add details to. "They won't dramatise the story "

Definition of Dramatise

1. Verb. (alternative spelling of dramatize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dramatise

1. [v -TISED, -TISING, -TISES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dramatise

dramatic event dramatic irony dramatic performance dramatic play dramatic production dramatic structure dramatic structures dramatic work dramatical dramatically

dramatick dramatics dramatis personae dramatisation dramatisations dramatise (current term) dramatised dramatises dramatising dramatist

dramatists dramatizable dramatization dramatizations dramatize dramatized dramatizes dramatizing dramatological dramatologically

Literary usage of Dramatise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Renaissance in Italy: The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds (1901)
"... Idyll, Expression of Emotion—The Monk at the Clavichord—Titian, Tintoret, and Veronese—Tintoretto's attempt to dramatise Venetian Art—Veronese's Mundane ..."

2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1879)
"I have been asked to dramatise it, and I have refused, because my experience tells me that the book is eminently unfit for stage purposes. ..."

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