IMMORTALISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immortalise mean? 

• IMMORTALISE (verb)
  The verb IMMORTALISE has 2 senses:

1. be or provide a memorial to a person or an event

2. make famous forever

  Familiarity information: IMMORTALISE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMORTALISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they immortalise    ... he / she / it immortalises   
Past simple: immortalised   
Past participle: immortalised   
-ing form: immortalising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

commemorate; immortalise; immortalize; memorialise; memorialize

Context example:

We memorialized the Dead

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make famous forever

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

eternalise; eternalize; eternise; eternize; immortalise; immortalize

Context example:

This melody immortalized its composer

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

 Context examples 

Lord Ravenshaw, in Cornwall, which would of course have immortalised the whole party for at least a twelvemonth! and being so near, to lose it all, was an injury to be keenly felt, and Mr. Yates could talk of nothing else.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)