English verb: immortalize | |||
1. | immortalize (cognition) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | ||
Samples | This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps. We memorialized the Dead. | ||
Synonyms | commemorate, immortalise, memorialise, memorialize, record | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | remind | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | monumentalise, monumentalize | ||
2. | immortalize (change) make famous forever | ||
Samples | This melody immortalized its composer. | ||
Synonyms | eternalise, eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s somebody | ||
Broader (hypernym) | alter, change, modify | ||