What does memorialize mean?

Definitions for memorialize
məˈmɔr i əˌlaɪz, -ˈmoʊr-memo·ri·al·ize

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. memorialize, memorialiseverb

    address in a memorial

    "The President memorialized the heroes of the battle"

  2. commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise, recordverb

    be or provide a memorial to a person or an event

    "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead"

Wiktionary

  1. memorializeverb

    To provide a memorial for someone; to commemorate

ChatGPT

  1. memorialize

    Memorialize generally means to commemorate or preserve the memory of someone or something, often in a physical or tangible form such as a monument, plaque, or written record. This act serves to honor and remember a person, event, or idea of significance.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Memorializeverb

    to address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of memorialize in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of memorialize in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of memorialize in a Sentence

  1. Earle Shettleworth:

    Before the Civil War, you would never have had an image of the common soldier to memorialize. You would have a general or a biblical figure, after the war, there was more of a democratic way of memorializing those who had participated.

  2. Project Angel Food:

    When my father passed away… my mother said, ‘Oh, we have to memorialize Eddie,’ because she still calls him ‘delicious,’ even after all these years, so we had a little party with bagels and lox for my little Jewish dad. My sisters and I got up and spoke. By the end, we all had included in our speech that we were his favorite! The reason why we all said that is because, at one point in our life, he made us feel that way. He didn’t know really how to be a father, but he did adore us all, and he did honor us all in that way.

  3. Susanne Andrews:

    I felt led to do something to help memorialize Stephen, this started out with just a posting of a picture of a gravesite and I have a 16-year-old, almost 17, and as a mom it just broke my heart.

  4. Mike McGirl:

    I sincerely appreciate her efforts to memorialize those precious lives lost to suicide and to prevent further tragedies from occurring.

  5. Sylvia Rico:

    I left a rock there to memorialize the family, it’s unfortunate that she didn’t speak to someone, or him either. There are lots of resources.

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