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memorialize

American  
[muh-mawr-ee-uh-lahyz, -mohr-] / məˈmɔr i əˌlaɪz, -ˈmoʊr- /
especially British, memorialise

verb (used with object)

memorialized, memorializing
  1. to commemorate.

  2. to present a memorial to.


memorialize British  
/ mɪˈmɔːrɪəˌlaɪz /

verb

  1. to honour or commemorate

  2. to present or address a memorial to

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Other Word Forms

  • memorialization noun
  • memorializer noun
  • unmemorialized adjective

Etymology

Origin of memorialize

First recorded in 1790–1800; memorial + -ize

Example Sentences

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A team from Georgetown University is investigating their deaths at the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children, a segregated juvenile detention facility in Cheltenham, Maryland, and memorializing them.

From Barron's

But his brother Craig’s memorializing of him, “Armed Only With a Camera,” is oddly uninvolving, more an excerpted flipbook of Brent’s far-flung assignments than a meaningful portrait of excelling at a dangerous job.

From Los Angeles Times

The most practical solution: Community property with right of survivorship or, as a halfway point, a clearly drafted life-estate agreement, ideally memorialized in a postnuptial agreement to fend off any disgruntled stepchildren.

From MarketWatch

Before 2008, he recalls, a clinician’s work was memorialized on paper: scribbled notes, doctor’s orders and thick charts parked at the nursing station.

From The Wall Street Journal

In most cases, participants only filed “brief” statements about their trips, but otherwise failed to “document or memorialize key takeaways, practical applications, or potential benefits to the Department,” the report said.

From Los Angeles Times