novelize
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novelize (third-person singular simple present novelizes, present participle novelizing, simple past and past participle novelized)
- To adapt something to a fictional form, especially to adapt into a novel.
- Herbert was able to novelize his experiences as a soldier into a compelling action drama.
- (dated) To innovate.
- 1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 38,
- […] the novelizing spirit of man lives by variety, and the new faces of things.
- 1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 38,
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