NOVELISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does novelise mean? 

• NOVELISE (verb)
  The verb NOVELISE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: NOVELISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOVELISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they novelise    ... he / she / it novelises   
Past simple: novelised   
Past participle: novelised   
-ing form: novelising   

Sense 1

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 "novelise" is one way to...):

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

novelisation (converting something into the form of a novel)