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Definition of memorialize
memorialized
;memorializing
transitive verb
1 : to address or petition by a memorial
2 : commemorate
From the M-W Editors
Examples of memorialize in a Sentence
an exciting period in history that has been memorialized in many popular books and movies
at the entrance to the park stands a statue memorializing the novelist Sir Walter Scott
Recent Examples of memorialize from the Web
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Since then, the battle site has been preserved to memorialize the many dead and the pivotal moment in American history.
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Shay also talked about another way the cast memorialized the show: through matching finger tattoos featuring their characters' first initials.
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And that's just one of a plethora of products and services available to owners to memorialize their pets.
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Now, his own words, memorialized in a previously unreported eight-page FBI memo, are part of the case against him.
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The holiday memorializes June 19, 1865, when an announcement was made in Galveston, Texas, that slavery had been abolished.
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Matthew, using pictures and video and a sad soundtrack, has begun to memorialize the victims of Birmingham area homicides in hopes of driving home the devastation violence crime brings.
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That was how the most influential members of our political elite chose to memorialize six people in Arizona and 26 people in Connecticut: by making sure people could buy more weapons.
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After lying for decades in unmarked graves, hundreds of souls in Deerfield Beach finally will be memorialized.
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First Known Use of memorialize
1798
MEMORIALIZE Defined for English Language Learners
memorialize
playDefinition of memorialize for English Language Learners
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: to do or create something that causes people to remember (a person, thing, or event)
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