英语单词“overdramatize”的中文翻译、释义及用法解析

单词 overdramatize 释义 overdramatizeverb[IorT]disapproving(alsoover-dramatize);(UKusuallyoverdramatise,over-dramatise)uk/???.v??dr?m.?.ta?z/us/?o?.v??dr?m.?.ta?z/to make asituationseema lot moreexciting,important, ordangerousthan it really is:He alwaystendsto overdramatize everything.Thestoryisdramaticenough, so you don't have to over-dramatize it.Ofcourseit'seasyto overdramatise.

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• I don'twantto overdramatize it, but it is alifeordeathsituation.
• She didn'ttryto over-dramatize.
• You do overdramatise things abit, youknow.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Exaggerating & playing down

• alarmist
• bloviate
• blowsomethingout of proportionidiom
• cartoonish
• catastrophize
• dramatization
• dramatize
• exaggerate
• minimize
• OTT
• over-egg
• overboard
• overdramatic
• overembellish
• overexaggerate
• overplay
• overstatement
• pile
• proportion
• stretch the truthidiom

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(Definition ofoverdramatizefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/overdramatize##