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fictionize

American  
[fik-shuh-nahyz] / ˈfɪk ʃəˌnaɪz /
especially British, fictionise

verb (used with object)

fictionized, fictionizing
  1. fictionalize.


Other Word Forms

Etymology

Origin of fictionize

First recorded in 1825–35; fiction + -ize

Example Sentences

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British Author Rex Warner, an old hand at translating Caesar, has set out to fictionize him.

From Time Magazine Archive

"It's impossible to fictionize Germany," laughed Mrs. Rotherick.

From The Enchanted Canyon by Honoré Morrow

He fictionized stories he had heard as personal experiences in the news rooms of the News, wrote his Farewell to Sports* for Hearst's Cosmopolitan.

From Time Magazine Archive

As beautiful as ever but less numb than usual, she achieves the difficult feat of making Katrin seem more a human being than a fictionized heroine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Forever Ulysses, a fictionized biography, makes its hero a modern Greek named Ulysses whose career, recalling Zaharoff's, also recalls Ulysses'.

From Time Magazine Archive

Racket situations are dramatized and a Dewey-style prosecuting attorney goes to work on the fictionized culprits.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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