CHRONOLOGIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chronologize mean? 

• CHRONOLOGIZE (verb)
  The verb CHRONOLOGIZE has 1 sense:

1. establish the order in time of something

  Familiarity information: CHRONOLOGIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHRONOLOGIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they chronologize    ... he / she / it chronologizes   
Past simple: chronologized   
Past participle: chronologized   
-ing form: chronologizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Establish the order in time of something

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

chronologise; chronologize

Context example:

The archivist chronologized the documents

Hypernyms (to "chronologize" is one way to...):

date (assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chronologize"):

antedate; foredate; predate (establish something as being earlier relative to something else)

postdate (establish something as being later relative to something else)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

chronology (the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events)

chronology (a record of events in the order of their occurrence)

chronology (an arrangement of events in time)