dramatise

See also: dramatisé

English

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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."

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French

Verb

dramatise

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

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