immortalize

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}, {immortalize}, {immortalise},
         {record}]
    2: make famous forever; "This melody immortalized its composer"
       [syn: {immortalize}, {immortalise}, {eternize}, {eternise},
       {eternalize}, {eternalise}]
    

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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Immortalize \Im*mor"tal*ize\, v. i.
   To become immortal. [R.]
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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