MELODRAMATIZE Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

melodramatize

verb

Definition of melodramatize

as in to put on

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Across Lower East Side dives in the early 2000s, Brian Chase, Nick Zinner, and Karen O put on otherworldly rock shows that verged on performance art—a blaze of vodka-spitting, mic-fellating, IDGAF unruliness and explosive, clamorous tracks.

— Megan Buerger, Pitchfork, 5 Nov. 2026
Currently, these special taxes put on by voter signature gathering do not need to meet that threshold.

— Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of put on

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But even this description overemphasizes its contribution to MoMA’s interdisciplinarity, since the small black-box theater has been used just as often as an additional gallery space for video or sound installations.

— Nolan Kelly, Artforum, 26 Oct. 2026
And yet the United States and its allies’ current defense architecture overemphasizes exquisite capabilities while their adversaries, namely China and Russia, possess vast industrial capacity to scale military production.

— Dan Driscoll, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of overemphasize

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Curated by Andrew Bolton, Costume Art explored the relationship between clothing and the human body, highlighting how fashion can celebrate, exaggerate, and transform the human form.

— Amanda Le, InStyle, 5 Nov. 2026
Reports of the Make America Healthy Again movement’s demise have been exaggerated.

— Isabella Cueto, STAT, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of exaggerate

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Silence on a number could be the carrier or the agent vendor, and anyone claiming certainty about which is overstating what the data supports.

— Satish Barot, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
If these numbers are accurate — and the polls wildly overstated el Sayed’s margin in the Democratic primary — Stevens would need to trigger an avalanche of vote-switching in addition to late deciders overwhelmingly breaking for Rogers.

— W. James Antle III, The Washington Examiner, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of overstate

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Sofiyan did not elaborate on the purpose of the deployment or respond to questions about whether there were concerns about security or political tensions in Jakarta.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2026
Krasner declined to elaborate on what those legal obstacles are.

— Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of elaborate

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