fictionalize

verb

1. 把（真人真事）改编成小说（或电影）
   to write a book or make a film/movie about a true story, but changing some of the details, characters, etc.
   1. a fictionalized account of his childhood
      关于他童年的小说式描述

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 fictionalise


1. VERB 把…编成小说;使小说化
   To fictionalize an account of something that really happened means to tell it as a story, with some details changed or added.
   1. We had to fictionalize names.
      我们得化用假名。
   2. ...a fictionalised account of a true and horrific story.
      对一个真实的恐怖故事小说化的叙述

1. We had to fictionalize names.
   我们得化用假名。
2. This is a different kind contemplation to the Tang Dynasty social history. But, as literary works, the Tang romance had essential difference from the historical works: fictionalize and real.
   但是，作为文学作品，唐传奇与史传作品有着根本的区别：虚构和真实。

verb

1. convert into the form or the style of a novel
   1. The author novelized the historical event

   Synonym:    novelizenovelisefictionalise

2. make into fiction
   1. The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel

   Synonym:    fictionaliseretell