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overdramatize
verb[ I or T ]
disapproving(alsoover-dramatize); (UK usuallyoverdramatise, over-dramatise)uk /ˌəʊ.vəˈdræm.ə.taɪz/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈdræm.ə.taɪz/
to make a situation seem a lot more exciting, important, or dangerous than it really is: 过度戏剧化
He always tends to overdramatize everything.他总是倾向于把一切过度戏剧化。
The story is dramatic enough, so you don't have to over-dramatize it.
Of course it's easy to overdramatise.
I don't want to overdramatize it, but it is a life or death situation.
She didn't try to over-dramatize.
You do overdramatise things a bit, you know.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Exaggerating & playing down
bloviate
blow something out of proportionidiom
cartoonish
cartoonishly
catastrophize
fulsome
go overboardidiom
inflated
make a mountain out of a molehillidiom
make little of somethingidiom
make much of somethingidiom
make something of something/someone
meal
mildly
minimization
OTT
protest too muchidiom
romanticize
underplay
underrate
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