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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel" [syn: fictionalize, fictionalise, retell]
2: convert into the form or the style of a novel; "The author novelized the historical event" [syn: novelize, novelise, fictionalize, fictionalise]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-ized; -izing) Date: 1918 to make into or treat in the manner of fiction <fictionalize a biography> • fictionalization noun

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(fictionalizes, fictionalizing, fictionalized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'fictionalise' To fictionalize an account of something that really happened means to tell it as a story, with some details changed or added. We had to fictionalize names. ...a fictionalised account of a true and horrific story. VERB: V n, V-ed

Moby Thesaurus

allegorize, coin, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct, create, dream up, experience imaginatively, fable, fabricate, fabulize, fancy, fantasize, hatch, ideate, imagine, invent, mold, mythicize, mythify, mythologize, narrate, novelize, originate, produce, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report, retell, romance, shape, storify, suppose, tell, tell a story, think up, unfold a tale