melodramatize
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of melodrama + dramatize
Verb
[edit]melodramatize (third-person singular simple present melodramatizes, present participle melodramatizing, simple past and past participle melodramatized)
- (transitive) To make melodramatic.
- 2007 January 14, James Traub, “Does Abe Foxman Have an Anti-Anti-Semite Problem?”, in New York Times[1]:
- It’s tempting to compare Abe Foxman with Al Sharpton, another portly, bellicose, melodramatizing defender of ethnic ramparts.