What does memorialize mean?
Definitions for memorialize
məˈmɔr i əˌlaɪz, -ˈmoʊr-memo·ri·al·ize
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Princeton's WordNet
memorialize, memorialiseverb
address in a memorial
"The President memorialized the heroes of the battle"
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
memorializeverb
To provide a memorial for someone; to commemorate
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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
Memorializeverb
to address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of memorialize in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of memorialize in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of memorialize in a Sentence
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.
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.
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.
I sincerely appreciate her efforts to memorialize those precious lives lost to suicide and to prevent further tragedies from occurring.
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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