MEMORIALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does memorialize mean? 

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

1. address in a memorial

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

  Familiarity information: MEMORIALIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEMORIALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they memorialize    ... he / she / it memorializes   
Past simple: memorialized   
Past participle: memorialized   
-ing form: memorializing   

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

address; speak (give a speech to)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

memorialization (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 "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:

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

Derivation:

memorial (a structure erected to commemorate persons or events)

memorial (a recognition of meritorious service)

 Context examples 

He is memorializing the Lord Chancellor, or the Lord Somebody or other—one of those people, at all events, who are paid to be memorialized—about his affairs.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)