fictionalize , also: fictionalise BrE

The space for this kind of work started to disappear or move online in the mid-1990s and I decided to fictionalise my thinking.

It was decided to fictionalise the script and change the character's names.

An author is encouraged to fictionalise Trilby, to make people forget he was ever real.

This was in part to fictionalise them, but also to remove some of the artifice of his first works.

Howard Marks has also written a book about Richard, although his name has been changed to fictionalise the story.

These were the adventures he was to fictionalise in 1903 as The Riddle of the Sands, his most famous book.

Episodes in his life inspired writers Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell to fictionalise him.

There has been other attempts to document and fictionalise Shahidul Jahir by Sarwar(?)

Series Producer Mark Hedgecoe has stated that he made the series in response to previous films that "have tended to ignore the real history and chosen to fictionalise the story."

Its proponents maintain that, as one of Plato's earliest works, it would not have been fitting to embellish and fictionalise the memory of his mentor, especially while so many who remembered him were still living.

The teachers he had here, often men who had returned from fighting in the war determined to make a better world, were a great influence on de Larrabeiti, something he would later fictionalise in Journal of a Sad Hermaphrodite.

Most of the time, though, the story is being fictionalized, told by others about us.

Many details about the town are fictionalized for the novel.

One evening it came to her: she would fictionalize the Queen's story.

"But you've got to fictionalize, too - to make the thing take off."

"I was very uneasy about fictionalizing that experience," he says.

The sisters said it's also easier to fictionalize if you don't name the town.

"At first I intended to heavily fictionalize the story," he says.

Stone said, well, Shakespeare fictionalized the lives of dead kings.

Ruth stars in the film, playing himself, but the details of his life are completely fictionalized.

The story was fictionalized as the 2004 film Nobody Knows.

Her life continues to be fictionalized by authors in many countries and languages.

In today's Russia, some facts are apparently still too dangerous to fictionalize.

An investigation of the legend in 2007 concluded that the story was fictionalized.

I don't think contact with someone he has fictionalized would be good for him at this juncture.

Such episodes take a real crime and fictionalize it by changing some details.

Renee would like to see him begin to fictionalize.

I've fictionalized her character and am telling the story from her own point of view.

While the exchange may be fictionalized, the scene illustrates the regard in which the form was held.

Naming these people satisfied my need to fictionalize what I was seeing in this new world of mine.

The order of games played and the score of at least one game was fictionalized for the movie.

We hear a lot today about how memoir has become the most popular genre; why did you choose to fictionalize the story?

The dead end kid phenomenon was fictionalized on the stage and screen where it became a popular image with which people could identify.

The film is based on actual events, but the scenario has been fictionalized for entertainment purposes.

We expect our journalistic media to fictionalize the truth.