biographize

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From biography +‎ -ize.

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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.