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biographise

biographise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of biographize.

Meaning of biographize

Verb

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

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

Forms of biographise

third-person singular presentbiographises
present participlebiographising
past participlebiographised
pastbiographised

Questions about biographise

What is biographise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Biographise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of biographize.

Words near biographise in the dictionary

  1. biographical
  2. biographically
  3. biographied
  4. biographies
  5. biographing
  6. biographise
  7. biographised
  8. biographises
  9. biographising
  10. biographism
  11. biographisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: biographise (page history and authors); biographize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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