to immortalize
- verb
- /ɪˈmɔːrtəlaɪz/
- In Vidal's novel, this act of courage is also immortalized by Hollywood.
- immortalized in song
- immortalize your name
As the ancient Egyptians proved, the second best way to immortalize data is to carve it into stone.
- As the ancient Egyptians proved, the second best way to immortalize data is to carve it into stone.
- It's to stand up to bastards like Jack Welch and people who've immortalized him and to say no.
- The Ford administration's refusal refusal to extend aid was immortalized in a famous newspaper headline that read Ford to City Drop Dead.
- Welcome to the communal apartment with its now immortalized uncle Phaedia.
- What now you tell me I've immortalized myself so I'm going to be fine.
- So if you ask a question, you will be immortalized.
- And they get immortalized on this like within this sub community.
Examples
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We are going to be immortalized, remembered forever, with what we achieved here, I mean it.
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We are gathered here today to immortalize in song.
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And I think it's been so special that we should immortalize it forever and ever.
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We're gonna immortalize him for you.
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How mankind likes to immortalize itself.
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Perhaps she thinks you'll immortalize her.
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Here, you two, come and be immortalized.
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One, which has since been immortalized in numerous science fiction stories.
Academic text (2017) -
In The Brus (1378), John Barbour immortalized Robert the Bruce and his heroic status.
Academic text (2006) -
The author sought to immortalize her beloved pet by writing a book about their adventures.
Synonyms
To remember someone or something with a ceremony
To honor and remember someone in a lasting, formal way
Make people remember someone or something forever
To make something last forever in people's memory or art
To remember a person or event with a lasting statue
Antonyms
How Remembered
- Formal
- US
- US
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Immortalize comes from the parts in- 'not', mort- 'death', and -ize 'to make', so it literally means 'make not die'. That's why to immortalize someone is to make them remembered forever.