MEMORIALIZE Synonyms: 16 Similar and Opposite Words

memorialize

verb

mə-ˈmȯr-ē-ə-ˌlīz

Definition of memorialize next

as in to commemorate

to be a memorial of at the entrance to the park stands a statue memorializing the novelist Sir Walter Scott

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Recent Examples on the Web As Hezbollah members gathered to hear leader Hassan Nasrallah memorialize Shukr on Tuesday, Israeli jets broke the sound barrier over Beirut, sending people scattering and rushing to open their windows to keep them from shattering. —

Dan Morrison, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2024 Scores of people gathered at a parochial school in the Valley to memorialize an ASU student who fell to her death two weeks earlier while hiking in Yosemite National Park. —

Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 27 July 2024 Family members and friends wore shirts memorializing the little boy. —

Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2024 This change follows an ongoing debate that emerged over the display of Confederate statues in 2020 about who or what is being publicly memorialized in the United States. —

Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 2 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for memorialize

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