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