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COMMEMORATE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony

Example:

Remember the dead of the First World War

Synonyms:

commemorate; remember

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

commemoration (a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something)

commemorative (intended as a commemoration)

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 "commemorate" is one way to...):

remind (put in the mind of someone)

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

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

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

commemoration (a recognition of meritorious service)

commemorative (intended as a commemoration)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Celebrate by some ceremony or observation

Example:

The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade

Synonyms:

commemorate; mark

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

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

celebrate; keep; observe (behave as expected during of holidays or rites)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

commemoration (a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something)

commemorative (intended as a commemoration)

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