Meaning of IMMORTALIZE
| Pronunciation: | | i'mor`tlIz
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- [v] make famous for ever
- [v] be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead"
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| | Synonyms: | | commemorate, eternalise, eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalise, memorialise, memorialize, record |
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| | See Also: | | alter, change, monumentalise, monumentalize, remind | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
2. To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame.
Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his quilty
name. --T. Dawes.
\Im*mor"tal*ize\, v. i.
To become immortal. [R.]
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| | Related Terms: | | aggrandize, apotheose, apotheosize, beatify, canonize, celebrate, commemorate, crown, deify, elevate, embalm, ennoble, enshrine, enthrone, eternalize, eternize, exalt, extol, freeze, glamorize, glorify, honor, keep alive, keep fresh, lionize, magnify, make legendary, memorialize, monumentalize, perennialize, perpetuate, preserve, preserve from oblivion, raise, saint, sanctify, set up, throne, uplift |
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