movieize

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

movie +‎ -ize

Verb[edit]

movieize (third-person singular simple present movieizes, present participle movieizing, simple past and past participle movieized)

  1. (transitive) To convert or adapt into a motion picture.
    • 1925, The Lariat, volumes 5-6, page 448:
      We think no more now of musicalizing the pages of a novel or poetic work, than we do of dramatizing or movieizing the same.