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Dramaticize 

1. verb- To add drama to something.

2. verb- A literary device to overemphasize a dramatic effect.

3. verb- (psycological) Overemphasizing or making something seem more dramatic than need or should be.

4. verb- To make something more or less apparent to the senses normally to express emphasis.

5. verb- To increase significance and/or size. (can also be ambiguous as to whether significance or size is increased)

6. verb- A false exaggeration of something.
1. "Your friend dramaticizes everything, he even talks about house flies as if they were the bane of his existence."

2. "As Harambe fell to the ground, the entire nation took their hats and pants off to give their respect to their fallen god." ~dramaticized by memes

3. "In horror, I found myself gasping for air after running from an echidna. My friend Joe shook his head at me as I dramaticized my fear of such harmless but odd creatures."

4. "O_O" as opposed to "o_o"
"Your mama's so fat, that she really COULD eat a horse."

5. "My penis dramaticized itself as soon as my pants 'accidentally' fell down in front of my girlfriend."

6. "What I maintain true is that I fear echidnas; what he dramaticized was the type of porn I like to watch."

dramatized

adj.

to be extremely extroverted due to being overexposed to your schools drama department. Dramatization usually occurs after becoming a thespian. when dramatized, the simplest of sentences and tasks can be completely loud overblown and obnoxious.
dramatized kid: I. DROPPED. MY. TACOOOO TRIANGLLEEEEE!!!

oscar: wow, he's dramatized
dramatized by johnnyhash123 January 19, 2010

dramatize 

The act of traumatizing people through the overuse of unneeded dramatic enhancements. IE- Any entity that presents a story in such a way as to elicit as much emotion as possible. A good example is news channels that use musical scores with a story.
Why does CNN and FoxNews feel the need dramatize people with the extra music & overacting emotion?
dramatize by Onedee Tentee September 26, 2005

Dramatized

Having endured a series of ridiculous social or family crises.
My cousin's being interrogated for the shooting of her boss, Jody's freaking out that her boyfriend's been stealing her stuff and selling it on ebay, and my boss just asked me to a dinner party with all the people from work that I hate. I'm totally dramatized.
Dramatized by TomcatNY April 4, 2009

Dramaticize 

”The word therefore dramaticizes sentences.”
Dramaticize by B Talented March 6, 2008

dramatizer

Somene that is full of drama and likes to start a lot of it. Usually someone that is sickly animated and annoying. lame.
Me: Did you see that dramatizer on the corner?
Person 1: Yeah,his lame ass thought he was cool.
Person 2: He probably gay.
dramatizer by Janelisha December 17, 2006
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"The girl is pretty but she corrupt and dutty!"

or, in a positive usage:

"Booya! That freestyle was dutty!"
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