novelize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to put into the form of a novel.
He tried to novelize one of Shakespeare's plays.
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to make fictional; fictionalize.
verb
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Origin of novelize
Example Sentences
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“And we’re in this beautiful golden age of television where we can novelize a TV show.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2020
Lynn Potter knew she had enough for a gripping read and had long planned to novelize the results by working off the letters.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2016
Wallace doesn’t simply set a scene and novelize his characters into facile life; rather, he makes an almost metaphysical commitment to see reality through their eyes.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2016
Reporter Miller had aimed to novelize the waterfront characters.
From Time Magazine Archive
When I started to look into that, I uncovered another amazing story, and I novelized her journey from obscurity in Baltimore to the British throne, almost.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2023
Two years after “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” hit theaters, Quentin Tarantino has novelized his Oscar-winning movie, calling the result a “complete rethinking” of the story.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2021
Often it isn’t the main events of history that ask to be novelized, but the footnotes, the things mentioned in passing.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2020
She novelized the story of an idealistic move to Nebraska in “The Quality of Life Report.”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 1, 2019
He had materially modified the French plot in his English play; and he got still further away from Brisebarre and Nus, when he novelized 'Gold,' and called it 'Hard Cash,' a matter-of-fact romance.
From A Book About the Theater by Matthews, Brander
“That was what my mother did,” she said, referring to the act of novelizing one’s life.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2022
Obliquity has led to greater success in novelizing the sixteenth President than have attempts to see him from the inside out and through his own point of view.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017
That said, however, an admirer must admit that Vonnegut's novelizing occasionally ticks on reflexively when there seems to be nothing in particular on his mind.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such bombast raises a problem inherent in all historical novelizing.
From Time Magazine Archive
IV The novelizing of plays is frequent and profitable in America in these early years of the twentieth century; and it had been attempted infrequently even in the seventeenth century.
From A Book About the Theater by Matthews, Brander
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