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Fictionalize
verb
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Verb
- 1 To retell (something) real (e.g., an event or series of events) as if it were fiction; especially, to do so in a way that departs from reality in any extent from mild to extensive (from minor details to essential substance). transitive
"a lightly fictionalized account of [X]"
- 2 convert into the form or the style of a novel wordnet
- 3 To retell (something) real (e.g., an event or series of events) as if it were fiction; especially, to do so in a way that departs from reality in any extent from mild to extensive (from minor details to essential substance).; To convert (something) real into a novel or other dramatic work. transitive
- 4 make into fiction wordnet
Etymology
From fictional + -ize.
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