fictionalize
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- (UK) fictionalise
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Verb edit
fictionalize (third-person singular simple present fictionalizes, present participle fictionalizing, simple past and past participle fictionalized)
- (transitive) To retell (something) real (e.g., an event or series of events) as if it were fiction; especially, to do so in a way that departs from reality in any extent from mild to extensive (from minor details to essential substance).
- a lightly fictionalized account of [X]
- (transitive) To convert (something) real into a novel or other dramatic work.
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Translations edit
fictionalize — see fictionalise
See also edit
- roman à clef (a type of fictionalization)