0 When writers dramatize books, stories, poems, etc., they write them again in a form that can be performed. --
1 If someone dramatizes a report of what has happened to them, they make the story seem more exciting, important, or dangerous than it really is. --
2 to make something seem more exciting or surprising than it is: --
The event was staged to dramatize the shortage of skilled carpenters.
3 to change a piece of writing into a play to be performed: --
He was hired by a movie production company to dramatize the novel.