IMMORTALIZE

immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise

(verb) make famous forever; “This melody immortalized its composer”

commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise

(verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; “This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps”; “We memorialized the Dead”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

immortalize (third-person singular simple present immortalizes, present participle immortalizing, simple past and past participle immortalized)

(American spelling, Oxford) Alternative spelling of immortalise

(biology) To remove the effects of normal apoptosis.

Source: Wiktionary


Im*mor"tal*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Immortalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Immortalizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. immortaliser.]

1. To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever. S. Clarke.

2. To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame. Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his quilty name. T. Dawes.

Im*mor"tal*ize, v. i.

Definition: To become immortal. [R.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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26 November 2024

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(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards


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