immortalize

Verb
Synonyms: commemoratememorializememorialiseimmortaliserecordeternizeeterniseeternalizeeternalise

WordNet 3.0

Verb (2)

  1. be or provide a memorial to a person or an event“This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps”“We memorialized the Dead”Synonyms: commemoratememorializememorialiseimmortaliserecord
  2. make famous forever“This melody immortalized its composer”Synonyms: immortaliseeternizeeterniseeternalizeeternalise
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Immortalize \Im*mor"tal*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Immortalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Immortalizing.] [Cf. F. immortaliser.]

1.To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever. --S. Clarke. [1913 Webster]

2.To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame. [1913 Webster]

Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his guilty name.— T. Dawes.[1913 Webster]
Immortalize \Im*mor"tal*ize\, v. i. To become immortal. [R.] [1913 Webster]
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