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fabulize

fabulize verb: to compose or relate fables or fictions; to give a false account of.

Verb (1)

fabulize (third-person singular simple present fabulizes, present participle fabulizing, simple past and past participle fabulized)

  1. To compose or relate fables or fictions; to give a false account of.
    • in consequence of the elevation of real mortals to the sphere, their fabulized history came to be inscribed upon it1823, George Stanley Faber, A Treatise on the Genius and Object of the Patriarchal […]

Verb (2)

fabulize (third-person singular simple present fabulizes, present participle fabulizing, simple past and past participle fabulized)

  1. (nonstandard, slang, transitive) To make fabulous, improve.

Forms of fabulize

third-person singular presentfabulizes
present participlefabulizing
past participlefabulized
pastfabulized

Origin of fabulize

Compare French fabuliser. See fable.

From fabul(ous) + -ize.

Questions about fabulize

What does fabulize mean?
Fabulize means to compose or relate fables or fictions; to give a false account of.
What part of speech is fabulize?
Fabulize is a verb.
What is the past tense of fabulize?
The past tense of fabulize is fabulized.

Words near fabulize in the dictionary

  1. fabulism
  2. fabulisms
  3. fabulist
  4. fabulistic
  5. fabulists
  6. fabulize
  7. fabulized
  8. fabulizes
  9. fabulizing
  10. fabulosities
  11. fabulosity

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