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.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It's impossible to fictionize Germany," laughed Mrs. Rotherick.
From The Enchanted Canyon by Honoré Morrow
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
Against Oblivion is not exactly a fictionized biography, since letters and diaries carefully document it, but it includes a few invented scenes and speeches.
From Time Magazine Archive
At this point, The Great Ziegfeld soars from the prose of fictionized biography into the poetry of revue.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is no necessity to justify, as he attempts, fictionized biography; the public has accepted it as its best communication with the past.
From Time Magazine Archive
The chronicle, little fictionized, of a trail drive to Kansas.
From Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations by J. Frank (James Frank) Dobie
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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