"fictionalizing" in the verb sense
1. fictionalize, fictionalise, retell
make into fiction
"The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel"
2. novelize, novelise, fictionalize, fictionalise
convert into the form or the style of a novel
"The author novelized the historical event"
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