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FICTIONALIZE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Convert into the form or the style of a novel

Example:

The author novelized the historical event

Synonyms:

fictionalise; fictionalize; novelise; novelize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "fictionalize" is one way to...):

convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make into fiction

Example:

The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel

Synonyms:

fictionalise; fictionalize; retell

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "fictionalize" is one way to...):

re-create (create anew)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

fiction (a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact)

fiction (a deliberately false or improbable account)

fictionalization (writing in a fictional form)

fictionalization (a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction)

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