FICTIONALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fictionalize mean? 

• FICTIONALIZE (verb)
  The verb FICTIONALIZE has 2 senses:

1. make into fiction

2. convert into the form or the style of a novel

  Familiarity information: FICTIONALIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FICTIONALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they fictionalize    ... he / she / it fictionalizes   
Past simple: fictionalized   
Past participle: fictionalized   
-ing form: fictionalizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make into fiction

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

fictionalise; fictionalize; retell

Context example:

The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel

Hypernyms (to "fictionalize" is one way to...):

re-create (create anew)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

fiction (a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact)

fiction (a deliberately false or improbable account)

fictionalization (writing in a fictional form)

fictionalization (a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Convert into the form or the style of a novel

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

fictionalise; fictionalize; novelise; novelize

Context example:

The author novelized the historical event

Hypernyms (to "fictionalize" is one way to...):

convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something