screenwrite

Meanings

verbscreenwrite (third-person singular simple present screenwrites, present participle screenwriting, simple past screenwrote, past participle screenwritten)

present singular third person screenwrites · participle present screenwriting · past screenwrote · participle past screenwritten

To write (a script) for film or television.
Amini screenwrote Jude and The Wings of the Dove and now directs his first feature.
2014, Nigel Andrews, The Two Faces of January – film review, FT.com
2 more examples
That was two years ago, and Patricia MacLachlan, the author of the children's book from which the TV Sarah derived, has been prevailed upon to screenwrite a sequel.
1993, John Leonard, New York Magazine, page 64
The stage is set for Jeffrey to convince Sandy to help him, and his words recall Dune's Duke Leto's words to his son, Paul, which Lynch had screenwritten from Frank Herbert's novel.
2008, Greg Olson, David Lynch: Beautiful Dark, page 228
Synonyms: script