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 Morrow, Honoré
Mason Locke Weems was an itinerant parson and book agent, pioneer in fictionized biography.
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
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
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
Now we know that no picture can possibly outdo him in his own fictionized frightfulness.
From Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams by Broun, Heywood
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 Slater, J. Atwood
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