to immortalize
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- verb
- /ɪˈmɔːrtəlaɪz/
- Specialized
:
inmortalizar
- The film will immortalize her contributions to art through a stunning digital recreation of her likeness.
Examples
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They plan to immortalize his voice by creating an AI avatar that can interact with fans long after he's gone.
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As for what clothing Lautner will be immortalized in, the press release says he's "styled in a tailored charcoal grey suit and black dress shirt with an open collar."
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These days, another kind of California girl is being immortalized on record.
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This is immortalized on tape forever.
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And he'll immortalize you on videotape.
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Want to be immortalized on the web forever (until we run out of server space)?
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Our grimy stove is now immortalized on the Interwebs.
Blog text (23) -
Still, he's an iconic part of Nintendo history, so he should be immortalized in the form of 3DS puzzle pieces.
Blog text (2) -
Yet when Frederic Harrison imagined a phonographic project immortalizing the Victorian era, Tennyson's contribution was to include a recording of The Princess entire.
Academic text (2017) -
With no such invention as the video cassette recorder to immortalize their babies, the mothers crammed together and grabbed at the moment as if it were champagne gulped from the bottle.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
Make people remember someone or something forever
To make something last forever in people's memory or art
Antonyms
How Lasting
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Immortalize comes from the parts in- 'not', mort- 'death', and -ize 'to make', so it means 'make not die'; in modern use we also say it when someone is kept present by a lasting digital copy such as a CGI, AI avatar, or hologram.