movieize

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verb

To convert or adapt into a motion picture.

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Meanings

verbmovieize (third-person singular simple present movieizes, present participle movieizing, simple past and past participle movieized)

present singular third person movieizes · participle present movieizing · participle past movieized · past movieized

  1. transitiveTo convert or adapt into a motion picture.

    We think no more now of musicalizing the pages of a novel or poetic work, than we do of dramatizing or movieizing the same.

    1925, The Lariat, volumes 5-6, page 448

Origin

From movie + -ize.

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APA

movieize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/movieize

MLA

“movieize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/movieize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “movieize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/movieize.

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