fictionalize

present singular third person fictionalizes · participle present fictionalizing · participle past fictionalized · past fictionalized · alternative fictionalise

1. transitiveTo 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).

   a lightly fictionalized account of [X]

   1. transitiveTo convert (something) real into a novel or other dramatic work.