Immortalize

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Immortalize \Im*mor"tal*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Immortalized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Immortalizing}.] [Cf. F.
     immortaliser.]
     1. To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever.
        --S. Clarke.
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     2. To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame.
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              Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his guilty
              name.                                 --T. Dawes.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Immortalize \Im*mor"tal*ize\, v. i.
     To become immortal. [R.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  immortalize
       v 1: be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This
            sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration
            camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" [syn: {commemorate},
            {memorialize}, {memorialise}, {immortalise}, {record}]
       2: make famous for ever [syn: {immortalise}, {eternize}, {eternise},
           {eternalize}, {eternalise}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "immortalize":
     aggrandize, apotheose, apotheosize, beatify, canonize, celebrate,
     commemorate, crown, deify, elevate, embalm, ennoble, enshrine,
     enthrone, eternalize, eternize, exalt, extol, freeze, glamorize,
     glorify, honor, keep alive, keep fresh, lionize, magnify,
     make legendary, memorialize, monumentalize, perennialize,
     perpetuate, preserve, preserve from oblivion, raise, saint,
     sanctify, set up, throne, uplift