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overdramatise

overdramatise is the alternative spelling of overdramatize.

Meaning of overdramatize

Verb

overdramatize (third-person singular simple present overdramatizes, present participle overdramatizing, simple past and past participle overdramatized)

  1. To dramatize to excess; to make overdramatic.
    • Kids this age tend to overdramatize their problems anyway.2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport

Forms of overdramatise

third-person singular presentoverdramatises
present participleoverdramatising
past participleoverdramatised
pastoverdramatised

Origin of overdramatise

From over- + dramatise.

Questions about overdramatise

What is overdramatise the alternative spelling of?
Overdramatise is the alternative spelling of overdramatize.

Words near overdramatise in the dictionary

  1. overdramatic
  2. overdramatically
  3. overdramatics
  4. overdramatisation
  5. overdramatisations
  6. overdramatise
  7. overdramatised
  8. overdramatises
  9. overdramatising
  10. overdramatization
  11. overdramatizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overdramatise (page history and authors); overdramatize (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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