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to chronicle

to chronicle

70 5.7
To write events in the order they happened
  • verb
  • /ˈkrɒnɪkəl/
translation icon : cronicar
  • She plans to chronicle her journey around the world in a blog, documenting her experiences day by day.
  • chronicle significant events
  • chronicle the history
  • chronicle everyday life

That's something that you chronicle so often in your work.

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Examples

  • And since then, he's written lots of books chronicling what happened during those years.

  • Thank you for chronicling my surprisingly grounded biography.

  • I want you to chronicle my life story for the movies.

  • This is probably the most important wildlife discovery of our time, and we're gonna chronicle it.

  • We'll film a reality show that chronicles going to jail and then getting out of jail.

  • I want to really chronicle and investigate some of these treasures that we have on this planet.

  • Experiments set up in 1931 have helped chronicle the history of farming in the Pacific Northwest.

    Academic text (1999)
  • This is the manuscript in which the friar chronicled the knight's story.

  • The Donovan Report chronicled specific abuses as well as shortcomings in the structure of bankruptcy administration.

    Academic text (2017)
  • The case study chronicles a family's multi-year search for solutions to their child's reading difficulties.

    Academic text (2012)

Synonyms

to log
vsto chronicle
175 3.0

To write down events or information to keep a record

focuses on a historical narrative that keeps events in their original sequence
to chronologize
vsto chronicle
9.2

To put events in the order they happened in time

is about creating a continuous historical record rather than only ordering events

How Detailed

to chronicle
70 5.7
to document
365 3.4
record
2.5
note
1.0

Surface Forms

chronicle infinitive
chronicled past
chronicled past participle
chronicling present participle
chronicles third person singular

Etymology

Chronicle comes from the Greek root chron-, which means 'time' and is the same root you see in chronology. To chronicle is to record events in 'time' order, so you can see how things happened one after another.