memorialize

Verb

Meaning

To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

commemorate immortalize memorialise immortalise revere mark record keep hallow jubilate address honor recognize preserve observe
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Antonyms

boo chasten burn blame forget disdain
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Hypernyms

address speak remind

Hyponyms

monumentalize monumentalise

Derivatives

memorialized memorializing

Examples

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. Margaret Atwood

I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it. Joyce Carol Oates

Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration. Jamie Johnson

Photography is not about seeing, but about Knowing. Going so deeply into the subject, whatever, whoever, that you find the spirit within. And then you memorialize it for others to also Know. John Diamond (doctor)

This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps Source: Internet

We memorialized the Dead Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

memorialistic memorializable memorialization memorializer memorially memoriam edition