Definition of "dramatise"

dramatise

verb
third-person singular simple present dramatises, present participle dramatising, simple past and past participle dramatised
1. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of dramatize
  Quotations
  "I have been," muttered he, "dramatising the last week: as it cannot be a comedy, and end with a marriage, let it be a tragedy, and end with a death. I can be the tyrant—Evelyn the lover ordered to execution. Lord Avonleigh has a double part to sustain—the cruel father, and the minister of my vengeance; while Francesca can go mad in white satin."
  1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 329