See fictionalize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "fictionalization"
},
{
"word": "docudrama"
},
{
"word": "docufiction"
},
{
"word": "faction"
},
{
"english": "a type of fictionalization",
"translation": "a type of fictionalization",
"word": "roman à clef"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with collocations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
10,
23
]
],
"tags": [
"collocation"
],
"text": "a lightly fictionalized account of [X]",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"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)."
],
"links": [
[
"retell",
"retell"
],
[
"real",
"real"
],
[
"fiction",
"fiction"
],
[
"reality",
"reality"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(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)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with collocations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"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).",
"To convert (something) real into a novel or other dramatic work."
],
"links": [
[
"retell",
"retell"
],
[
"real",
"real"
],
[
"fiction",
"fiction"
],
[
"reality",
"reality"
],
[
"novel",
"novel"
],
[
"drama",
"drama"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(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).",
"(transitive) To convert (something) real into a novel or other dramatic work."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɪk.ʃən.əl.aɪz/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "fictionalize"
}
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