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  • verb To adapt something to a fictional form, especially to adapt into a novel.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb convert into the form or the style of a novel

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Examples

  • Beevor praised Dunmore's writing for its historical accuracy, and said he appreciated that "in comparison with some historical novelists she does not try to novelise characters".

    Helen Dunmore warns the Hay festival of the dangers in fictionalising history 2010

  • You can novelise film screenplays or episodes from popular TV series, or create original stories based on characters and concepts from other storytelling media such as computer games, comics, TV dramas or role playing games.

    Archive 2009-09-01 DAVID BISHOP 2009

  • How Wellesley came to novelise A Question of Adultery is unknown and his only other book credit is Sex and the Occult, a non-fiction study of occultism published by Souvenir Press in 1973.

    Paperback Cover Cavalcade 6 Steve 2009

  • You can novelise film screenplays or episodes from popular TV series, or create original stories based on characters and concepts from other storytelling media such as computer games, comics, TV dramas or role playing games.

    Writing somebody else's story or characters DAVID BISHOP 2009

  • Who wouldn't grab with both hands at the chance to novelise the latest LucasArts computer game?

    Archive 2008-08-01 Sean Williams 2008

  • Who wouldn't grab with both hands at the chance to novelise the latest LucasArts computer game?

    THE FORCE UNLEASHED unleashed at last Sean Williams 2008

  • Q Will you ever novelise the ` Dr Who 'episodes you wrote?

    Don't Panic Gaiman, Neil 1993

  • The sentiment expressed by Crowe was perhaps correct, but the Kiwi star appeared to get a little too carried away with the measures he would use to novelise his version of the game.

    Cricket365 | Cricket News 2009

  • Novelisations are usually much easier to follow than the films they novelise.

    Culture | guardian.co.uk Joe Queenan 2009

  • You will put them to some action, and since you do threaten the Canongate with your desperate quill, you surely mean to novelise, or to dramatise, if you will, this most singular of all tragedies?”

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

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