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. Francis M. Faber Jr.:

    Do the thousands of 'cross-bucks' at railroad crossings across our nation memorialize any exchange of 'dollars'?

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Mary Simon:

    And as I said in my remarks, we need to stop to fully recognize and memorialize and come to terms with the atrocities of our collective past that we are learning more about each day.

  5. Mike McGirl:

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

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