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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


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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

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

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

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

Mason Locke Weems was an itinerant parson and book agent, pioneer in fictionized biography.

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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