MEMORIALIZE

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”

memorialize, memorialise

(verb) address in a memorial; “The President memorialized the heroes of the battle”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

memorialize (third-person singular simple present memorializes, present participle memorializing, simple past and past participle memorialized)

(US) To provide a memorial for someone; to commemorate

(law) To create a written record of a meeting or conversation.

(transitive, dated) To petition with a memorial, or statement of facts.

Source: Wiktionary

Me*mo"ri*al*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Memorialized; p. pr. & vb. n. Memorializing.]

Definition: To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature. T. Hook.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition