dramatise

See also: dramatisé

English

Verb

dramatise (third-person singular simple present dramatises, present participle dramatising, simple past and past participle dramatised)

1. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of dramatize
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 329:

     "I have been," muttered he, "dramatising the last week: as it cannot be a comedy, and end with a marriage, let it be a tragedy, and end with a death. I can be the tyrant—Evelyn the lover ordered to execution. Lord Avonleigh has a double part to sustain—the cruel father, and the minister of my vengeance; while Francesca can go mad in white satin."

Derived terms

• dramatisable
• overdramatise
• underdramatise
• undramatised

 

Anagrams

• Armistead

French

Verb

dramatise

1. inflection of dramatiser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• admirâtes
• désarmait