to memorialize
15
7.2
- verb
- /məˈmɔːrɪəˌlaɪz/
- Formal
:
conmemorar
- The community organized a ceremony to memorialize the firefighters who bravely lost their lives in the disaster.
- memorialize the dead
- memorialize important events
As so often through the memorializing of the dead.
- As so often through the memorializing of the dead.
- And now we memorialize Squaw on the campus.
- But there's a wall there that, you know, just memorializes a lot of soldiers.
- I just wanted to memorialize somebody who at one time had been a friend.
- These are really important people that we need to recognize and memorialize because of their acts and their efforts.
- And that is thought to memorialize the seven wise men who fled to Easter Island from the destruction by flood of the land of Heva.
- Well, as a lawyer, he's memorializing a false narrative.
- Yes, his life and we're memorialized legacy and all what he did accomplish.
Examples
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He's been memorialized in three books, two movies, a Broadway play, and even in popular music.
Academic text (2009) -
One might ask, "Why memorialize the tenth anniversary of the explosion at all?"
Academic text (2001) -
My father had died, and I was trying to find a way to memorialize him and to process it.
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I just wanted to memorialize somebody who at one time had been a friend.
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We memorialize those we love by continuing to love.
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These are really important people that we need to recognize and memorialize because of their acts and their efforts.
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We're going to build precisely this structure and in it, we're going to memorialize Tap.
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And now we memorialize Squaw on the campus.
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The event itself has been memorialized as a momentous one in the long history of Armenian martyrdom.
Academic text (1991) -
Inside the church are inscriptions in Maori and English memorializing the fallen combatants of both sides.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
431
1.0
To show respect for someone, often by giving a gift
66
5.8
To remember someone or something with a ceremony
22
5.8
Show deep respect to someone or something, often in public
19
7.0
Make a person or thing remembered forever by honoring them
11
7.4
To show great respect for a person or thing
7
8.3
To praise someone highly, often in a speech at their funeral
To remember a person or event with a lasting statue
To make something last forever in people's memory or art
Make people remember someone or something forever
How Permanent
19
7.0
- Formal
15
7.2
66
5.8
- US
796
2.3
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Memorialize comes from the same root as the common word memory, from a Latin word meaning 'remember'. The ending -ize means 'make', so to memorialize someone is to 'make a lasting memory' of them.