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memorialize

verb

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  1. to be a memorial of at the entrance to the park stands a statue memorializing the novelist Sir Walter Scott Synonyms commemorate, monumentalizeRelated Words celebrate, keep, observe, remember; enshrine, exalt, glorify, honor; bless, consecrate, sanctify, solemnizeNear Antonyms disgrace, dishonor

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