0 present participle of fictionalize
1 to write about a real event or character, but adding imaginary details and changing the real facts:
The fictionalizing, imaginary, and even fantasizing elements of such stories are pivotal in the process of knowing and intimating the other.
Fictionalizing the readers of scholarly articles in biology.
The associated utopian tales not only provided a dynamic vehicle for fictionalizing concerns about an increasingly urbanized humanity, they also examined the social implications of evolution itself.
At the urging of others, she prepared them for publication, slightly altering and fictionalizing them.
The film has been criticized for fictionalizing the events and the way that the characters were portrayed.
Blassingame made every effort to make his books as accurate as possible, and disapproved of fictionalizing juvenile history merely for the benefit of drama.