MEMORIALISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does memorialise mean? 

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

1. address in a memorial

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

  Familiarity information: MEMORIALISE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEMORIALISE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Address in a memorial

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

memorialise; memorialize

Context example:

The President memorialized the heroes of the battle

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

address; speak (give a speech to)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

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

Sense 2

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

remind (put in the mind of someone)

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

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

Sentence frames:

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