fictionize
Americanverb (used with object)
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British Author Rex Warner, an old hand at translating Caesar, has set out to fictionize him.
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"It's impossible to fictionize Germany," laughed Mrs. Rotherick.
From The Enchanted Canyon by Honoré Morrow
A large-framed, stooping man with a sad, heavily-lined face, Correspondent Gilbert had none of the swaggering, hard-boiled mannerisms of the fictionized newsman.
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Mason Locke Weems was an itinerant parson and book agent, pioneer in fictionized biography.
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Against Oblivion is not exactly a fictionized biography, since letters and diaries carefully document it, but it includes a few invented scenes and speeches.
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Lania, an exile from the Reich who sticks close to the news, includes in his novel a fictionized account of how Hugo Stinnes cornered industrial Germany during the inflation.
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Now we know that no picture can possibly outdo him in his own fictionized frightfulness.
From Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams by Heywood Broun
If fictionizing in prose, he writes with brief orange-hued flashes of liquid ether; each of short, all but, brief span.
From Original Letters and Biographic Epitomes by J. Atwood Slater
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