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to cinematize

to cinematize

8.6
To make a book or story into a film
  • verb
  • /ˈsɪnəˌmætɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : cinematizar
  • Many bestselling novels have been cinematized into popular films that attract large audiences.

Examples

  • The director plans to cinematize the true story of the athlete's rise to fame.

  • After the book's success, several producers wanted to cinematize its intriguing plot.

  • Playing this game is just completely unique, and even if nothing happens in your first few minutes of life, the initial reaction to the world, and the decisions you make and the fears you feel all have a weight and a realness to them that has never (in my opinion) been captured by any studio trying to cinematize and script your experience.

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Synonyms

to dramatize
vsto cinematize
10 4.1

To make a story into a play or film

adapts specifically for film rather than for plays or other forms

Surface Forms

cinematize infinitive
cinematized past
cinematized past participle
cinematizing present participle
cinematizes third person singular

Morphology

cinematize = cinema (transparent) = cinema + ize

Formed by adding the productive verb-forming suffix '-ize' to 'cinema', meaning 'make into a film', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Cinematize comes from cinema, which comes from a Greek word meaning 'movement', and the ending -ize, which means 'to make'. So to cinematize something is to 'make it into moving pictures' or to turn it into a film.