Definition of Melodramatize

1. Verb. (transitive) To make melodramatic. ¹

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Definition of Melodramatize

1. [v -TIZED, -TIZING, -TIZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Melodramatize

melodizing
melodrama
melodramas
melodramata
melodramatic
melodramatically
melodramatics
melodramatise
melodramatised
melodramatises
melodramatising
melodramatist
melodramatists
melodramatization
melodramatizations
melodramatize (current term)
melodramatized
melodramatizes
melodramatizing
melodrame
melodrames
melody
melody pipe
melodyless
melodylike
meloe
melograph
melographs
meloid
meloids

Literary usage of Melodramatize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Contemporary Drama of Ireland by Ernest Augustus Boyd (1917)
"At the cost of popular success, Colum has remained faithful to himself; he has withstood the temptation to melodramatize Synge. ..."

2. Psychoanalysis and behavior by André Tridon (1920)
"Nightmares, as I stated in the preceding chapter, often melodramatize very simple actions the desire for which we have so repressed that they only break ..."

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