[syn: novelize, novelise, fictionalize, fictionalise]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fictionalize
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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "fictionalize":
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