memorialize
Other forms: memorialized; memorializing; memorializes
When you memorialize something, you honor it or do something so it will be remembered. If you want to remember a summer trip taken with friends, you could make a photo album full of the pictures you took to memorialize it.
The word memorialize often is used in relation to someone or something that has passed away or even to a group of connected individuals who have perished. You might see a monument, for example, that memorializes victims of an earthquake, meaning pays tribute to them. You can also memorialize someone in a speech, meaning you tell about the person's life and describe how he or she has affected others.
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be or provide a memorial to a person or an event“We memorialized the Dead”synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, recordtypes:type of:remindput in the mind of someone
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address in a memorial“The President memorialized the heroes of the battle”synonyms: memorialise
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Vocabulary lists containing memorialize
Don't forget this list of words derived from the Latin memoria meaning "memory or remembrance."
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