'Immortalize' definitions:
Definition of 'immortalize'
(from WordNet)
verb
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]
verb
Make famous forever; "This melody immortalized its composer" [syn: immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise]
Definition of 'Immortalize'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame. [1913 Webster]
- Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his guilty name. --T. Dawes. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Immortalize'
From: GCIDE
- Immortalize \Im*mor"tal*ize\, v. i. To become immortal. [R.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'immortalize'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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