fictionalize
pronunciation
How to pronounce fictionalize in British English:
UK [ˈfɪkʃənəlaɪz]
How to pronounce fictionalize in American English:
US [ˈfɪkʃənəˌlaɪz]
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- Verb:
- make into fiction
- convert into the form or the style of a novel
Word Origin
- fictionalize (v.)
- 1911, from fictional + -ize. Related: Fictionalized; fictionalizing. Earlier was fictionize (1822).
Example
- 1. Returned to madame to fold soldier this story to fictionalize .
- 2. Reading diaries and other first-hand accounts of the massacre , she came across brief references to prostitutes who offered themselves to the japanese as substitutes for other women , which gave her both the kernel of her story and a license to fictionalize .
- 3. Born in 1955 in the shandon province , the setting that he would fictionalize in all of his novels , he dropped out of school as a 10-year-old and took the only path out of poverty in rural china for a young man : he joined the army .