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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fictionalize
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Zoot Suit" is Valdez's fictionalized version of a famous murder case.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Choosing to fictionalize a true story gives her a lot of liberties, and she takes every last one.
▪ The books fictionalize a fundamentalist reading of the New Testament's contentious Book of Revelation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fictionalize

1911, from fictional + -ize. Related: Fictionalized; fictionalizing. Earlier was fictionize (1822).

Wiktionary
fictionalize

vb. 1 To retell something real as if it were fiction, especially by fabricate falsehoods 2 To convert something into a novel or other dramatic work

WordNet
fictionalize
  1. v. make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel" [syn: fictionalise, retell]

  2. convert into the form or the style of a novel; "The author novelized the historical event" [syn: novelize, novelise, fictionalise]

Usage examples of "fictionalize".

Even though she was largely fictionalizing their relationship—inventing anecdotes, intimacies and confidences never shared—the act nonetheless thawed Mary Andrea's heart.

No amount of fictionalizing could encompass the horror that was in that alley.

They are lacking in worldly context, although I have tried my best to supply it without fictionalizing it.