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MEMORIALIZE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

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

remind (put in the mind of someone)

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

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

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

memorial (a structure erected to commemorate persons or events)

memorial (a recognition of meritorious service)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Address in a memorial

Example:

The President memorialized the heroes of the battle

Synonyms:

memorialise; memorialize

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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

address; speak (give a speech to)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

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

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