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to eternalize

to eternalize

7.9
Make people remember someone or something forever
  • verb
  • /ɪˈtɜrnəlaɪz/
translation icon : eternizar
  • The documentary aimed to eternalize the legacy of the civil rights leader for future generations.

And he famously said, I, I eternalized it.

Examples

  • They created a scholarship to eternalize the contributions of their beloved teacher.

  • I can dissolve it into a number, into a pure relation between numbers, and eternalize it.

    Academic text (1994)

  • HASHEM runs this world, and all that goes on is in His hands. Let's try to eternalize this message and plan our days thinking and realizing that it is in HASHEM's hands whether our plans will be carried out!

    Blog text (28)

  • But in their "formal" life, these two figural modes (like the paintings in the Louvre) eternalize the myth on which this love has been built.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The artist wanted to eternalize the beauty of the sunset in her painting.

Synonyms

to perpetuate
vsto eternalize
114 6.5

Make a bad situation or idea continue when it should stop

implies lasting forever or ensured remembrance rather than mere continuation
to immortalize
vsto eternalize
19 7.0

Make a person or thing remembered forever by honoring them

does the same without focusing on public fame or formal honors
to memorialize
vsto eternalize
  • Formal
15 7.2

To honor and remember someone in a lasting, formal way

is used more generally to secure forever memory rather than formal honoring
to eternize
vsto eternalize
9.9

To make something last forever in people's memory or art

is a broader, general way to make something remembered forever

Antonyms

to forget
∞ 1.0

Not remember something you should remember

to erase
156 2.2

Remove all traces of something from memory or history

How Permanent

to eternalize
7.9
to memorialize
  • Formal
15 7.2
to preserve
496 3.4
to record
350 2.6

Surface Forms

eternalize infinitive
eternalized past
eternalized past participle
eternalizing present participle
eternalizes third person singular

Morphology

eternalize = eternal (transparent) = eternal + ize

Formed by adding the productive verbalizing suffix '-ize' to 'eternal', giving the clear meaning 'to make eternal'.

Etymology

Eternalize comes from eternal meaning 'everlasting' and the ending -ize meaning 'to make'. So, to eternalize something is to make it last forever or to make people always remember it.