immortalize Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
memorialise; commemorate; record; memorialize; immortalise.
- This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps
- We memorialized the Dead
verb make famous forever
eternalize; eternalise; eternize; eternise; immortalise.
- This melody immortalized its composer

Cf. F. immortaliser.

imperfect & past participle Immortalized ; present participle & verbal noun Immortalizing

To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever. S. Clarke.
To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame.
Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his quilty name. T. Dawes.