biographize

English

Alternative forms

• biographise (UK)

Etymology

biography +‎ -ize

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /baɪˈɒɡɹəfaɪz/

Verb

biographize (third-person singular simple present biographizes, present participle biographizing, simple past and past participle biographized)

1. (transitive) To write a biography of.
   • 2007 November 12, Mark Lawson, “The king of faction”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     [Norman Mailer] was, though, absolutely the daddy of faction, his novels or journalism reporting every conflict from 1939 to Iraq and biographising Americans including John F Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali and Neil Armstrong.