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Verb: fictionalize  fik-shu-nu-lIz
  1. Make into fiction
    "The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel"
    - fictionalise [Brit], retell
     
  2. Convert into the form or the style of a novel
    "The author fictionalized the historical event"
    - novelize, novelise [Brit], fictionalise [Brit]

Derived forms: fictionalizing, fictionalized, fictionalizes

See also: fiction, fictionalization

Type of: convert, re-create