English Explanatory Dictionary

sensationalize

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To glorify or inflate the importance of a piece of news; to artificially create a sensation.

Word forms

sensationalize sensationalizes sensationalizing sensationalized sensationalise

Etymology

From sensational + -ize.

Derived words

desensationalize oversensationalize sensationalizable sensationalizer
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