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melodramatise

melodramatise is the alternative spelling of melodramatize.

Meaning of melodramatize

Verb

melodramatize (third-person singular simple present melodramatizes, present participle melodramatizing, simple past and past participle melodramatized)

  1. (transitive) To make melodramatic.
    • It’s tempting to compare Abe Foxman with Al Sharpton, another portly, bellicose, melodramatizing defender of ethnic ramparts.2007 January 14, James Traub, “Does Abe Foxman Have an Anti-Anti-Semite Problem?”, in New York Times

Forms of melodramatise

third-person singular presentmelodramatises
present participlemelodramatising
past participlemelodramatised
pastmelodramatised

Questions about melodramatise

What is melodramatise the alternative spelling of?
Melodramatise is the alternative spelling of melodramatize.

Words near melodramatise in the dictionary

  1. melodramaticity
  2. melodramaticness
  3. melodramatics
  4. melodramatisation
  5. melodramatisations
  6. melodramatise
  7. melodramatised
  8. melodramatises
  9. melodramatising
  10. melodramatism
  11. melodramatisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: melodramatise (page history and authors); melodramatize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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