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OVERDRAMATIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they overdramatize ... he / she / it overdramatizes
Past simple: overdramatized
Past participle: overdramatized
-ing form: overdramatizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Present in an overly dramatic manner
Example:
She is overdramatizing her child's failure in the physics class
Synonyms:
overdramatise; overdramatize
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "overdramatize" is one way to...):
dramatise; dramatize (represent something in a dramatic manner)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something