IMMORTALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immortalize mean? 

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

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

2. make famous forever

  Familiarity information: IMMORTALIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMORTALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they immortalize    ... he / she / it immortalizes   
Past simple: immortalized   
Past participle: immortalized   
-ing form: immortalizing   

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

remind (put in the mind of someone)

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

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 "immortalize" 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 

A population of activated, immortalized, interleukin-2 (IL-2)-dependent, cytotoxic natural killer (NK) cells with potential antitumor activity.

(Natural Killer Cells ZRx101, NCI Thesaurus)

A ubiquitous tissue culture model for nontransformed animal cells; derived from nonneoplastic immortalized fibroblasts.

(NIH/3T3, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

A cancer vaccine consisting of allogeneic, immortalized dendritic cells (DCs) loaded with tumor specific antigens and activated, with potential immunostimulatory and antineoplastic activities.

(Allogeneic Dendritic Cell Vaccine COMBIG-DC, NCI Thesaurus)

A cancer vaccine consisting of allogeneic, immortalized dendritic precursor cells derived from a patient with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), with potential immunostimulatory and antineoplastic activities.

(Allogeneic AML Antigen-expressing Dendritic Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

When he looked about him for another and a less intractable damsel to immortalize in melody, memory produced one with the most obliging readiness.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Within the shadow, I may figuratively say, of that religious edifice immortalized by Chaucer, which was anciently the resort of Pilgrims from the remotest corners of—in short, said Mr. Micawber, in the immediate neighbourhood of the Cathedral.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)