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What is the verb for fiction?

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fictionalize
  1. To retell something real as if it were fiction, especially by fabricating falsehoods
  2. To convert something into a novel or other dramatic work
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “These ideologies exploit phenomenalism and theoreticism respectively, allowing neocolonialists to factualize literature and ultranationalists to fictionalize history.”
      “I suggested that the obvious solution was to post anonymously and fictionalize the names of his employer and co-workers.”
      “These ideologies exploit phenomenalism and theoreticism respectively, allowing neocolonialists to factualize literature and Japanese ultranationalists to fictionalize history.”
fictionalise
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of fictionalize.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I have always been fascinated by how people fictionalise their lives, how they tell stories and act them out.”
      “This was in part to fictionalise them, but also to remove some of the artifice of his first works.”
fictionise
  1. (British spelling) To fictionalize.
fictionize
fictionalizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Without him there to challenge and contradict her, a reader might overlook the evasions and liberties she allows herself as she fictionalizes her way through existence.”
      “By looking at a geopolitics over-burdened with conflicts, tensions and dramas, she fictionalizes situations in order to dismantle clichés or ethnic and social stereotypes.”
      “Schnabel fictionalizes himself as Gary Oldman's Albert Milo, who is characterized as Basquiat's concerned, experienced adviser.”
fictionalises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalise
fictionises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionise
fictionizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionize
fictionalised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise
  2. Examples:
    1. “The airline objected because the blog, a fictionalised account of trolley dolly life, included a couple of shots of Simone in her uniform.”
      “Nostalgia is a collective, fictionalised and romanticised view of the past, no?”
      “Despite it all, he wrote a fictionalised account of his disastrous passion and was promptly mauled by critics and friends alike.”
fictionalized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of fictionalize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The movie Chinatown is a fictionalized account of that land and water grab.”
      “Not based on the local artist of the same name, this is instead a fictionalized account of the breakdown of a Montreal slacker artist.”
      “The stories that follow are all fictionalized accounts of my life in the suburbs.”
fictionised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of fictionise
fictionized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of fictionize
fictionalizing
  1. present participle of fictionalize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “So a movie fictionalizing a school shooting committed by kids emulating a movie is art imitating life which imitated art.”
      “One of the most appealing aspects of Hemon's fiction is that he is at once grounded in pungent realities and drawn toward playful fictionalizing.”
      “Perhaps compose a fiction about hard-wired fictionalizing, a fiction that reminds readers of their synaptic deceptions.”
fictionalising
  1. present participle of fictionalise
fictionising
  1. present participle of fictionise
fictionizing
  1. present participle of fictionize
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