Verb (used with object) : He dramatizes his woes with sobs and sighs.    From Dictionary.com. 

Veteran film-maker will dramatise revolutionary events of May 1968.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unthinkable? Historically accurate films | Editorial] Reference

Types of Story -- A Graded List of Stories to dramatise and retell 11.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling] Reference

The honour is reciprocal, sir, as I usually say when I dramatise a book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nicholas Nickleby] Reference

Yet, it helps little to dramatise this crisis, as easy as it is to do so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Have we failed the Party?] Reference

He is not one to dramatise and if he says Armageddon, Armageddon out of here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Go Straight To City Unslicker ( Do not pass Go)] Reference

This sounds like a first: the BBC will soon announce plans to dramatise a poem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetry in motion] Reference

Let's not over-dramatise it, but the Mayor's comments sounded very like a threat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boris Johnson: bikers, cabbies and liberty] Reference

Likewise, the urge to camouflage or self-dramatise oneself in front of the camera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photography: self-portraits as an art form] Reference

What you ended up with was a man reacting to field reports, which is hard to dramatise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike talks to Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander, co-writers of VALKYRIE | Obsessed With Film] Reference

Ngoako Ramatlhodi to the local police station to dramatise their border dispute demands.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

To establish a unique setting or to dramatise exposition before the story really gets going.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prologues: How and When To Use Them | The Creative Penn] Reference

I'm presuming that no-one in Birmingham is planning to dramatise this story in the near future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Plays] Reference

In attempting to dramatise his consciousness Parini therefore sets himself a monumental challenge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Passages of Herman Melville by Jay Parini – review] Reference

They dramatise thus weddings, dinner-parties, and many other of the events of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference

The young lecturers there like to dramatise modern life as a sequence of calamities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lay of the Land] Reference

The big question for Fellowes is whether series two will dramatise the war years or skip past them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Downton Abbey triumphs as toff television takes orff, again] Reference

Labour Minister Tito Mboweni not to "over dramatise differences" and "turn anthills into mountains".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

This solution, he said, was prescribed by opposition politicians seeking to dramatise the situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

You are resolved that your course should dramatise the whole play and interplay of force and matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference

It didn't happen, so now they have to look back and dramatise scenes of 1970s rioting in the streets.    From Wordnik.com.  [House Points: Ricky Tomlinson and the Youth Parliament] Reference

His ‘government of all the talents’ will dramatise this new ‘inclusiveness’ in the days ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [All bets are off] Reference

Unfortunately, Archer did not dramatise this shadow on the American psyche with any depth or complexity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Taking of Prince Harry and the limits of TV drama] Reference

And it's using the medium, the facts of the character, to dramatise and illuminate and explore what it means to be him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monday maunderings ... Torchwood Season 2] Reference

Surprisingly, the Lewis trust has allowed us to dramatise them, as long as we don't pass the scripts onto any other group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overcome, and Come Up] Reference

Buildings in Pretoria on Monday to dramatise their demands for prisoners 'rights, spokesman Golden Miles Dhudu said on Saturday.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

We would figure out what happens during that 60 years, and choose one short section of time to drop in and dramatise for the screen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Del Toro and Jackson talk Hobbit - Wetaholics Unite! | Fused Film] Reference

I think everybody needs somebody like this, I am not trying to over-dramatise my feelings or suggest that I'm more needy than others.    From Wordnik.com.  [sheepdip Diary Entry] Reference

Unless you can dramatise his petty irritations to the point where they become exciting in themselves, reading about boredom is boring.    From Wordnik.com.  [HH Com 381] Reference

Omar added: "There is no need for him or anyone purportedly speaking on his behalf to over-dramatise the issue, whatever their motive.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

State and Newcastle in northern Natal to dramatise their determination to include the towns in a future Volkstaat (Afrikaner homeland).    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Both Toynbee and Progress offer Brown heaven-sent opportunities to define himself, to engage in argument and to dramatise his positions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defend yourself] Reference

And the irresponsible SF writer in me prefers to riff on blue-sky scenarios, rather than ploddingly dramatise some five- or ten-year plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Martian Ramblings] Reference

Why does she feel the need to dramatise what Handel didn't?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Our government has been anxious not to dramatise this problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

You are supposed to have permission I think if you dramatise a living person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Craig Murray] Reference

Ms Anthony's attorney Jose Baez said it was too soon to dramatise the case in a play, to be called.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

If you can't come yourself, send your cocked hat, and Mrs. Denvil shall dramatise it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841] Reference

This is a red herring and an attempt to dramatise a matter for which no foundation exists.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference