/ English Dictionary

IMMORTALISE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make famous forever

Example:

This melody immortalized its composer

Synonyms:

eternalise; eternalize; eternise; eternize; immortalise; immortalize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "immortalise" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event

Example:

We memorialized the Dead

Synonyms:

commemorate; immortalise; immortalize; memorialise; memorialize

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "immortalise" is one way to...):

remind (put in the mind of someone)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "immortalise"):

monumentalise; monumentalize (record or memorialize lastingly with a monument)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

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