Hypertext Webster Gateway: "immortalize"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Immortalize \Im*mor"tal*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Immortalized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Immortalizing}.] [Cf. F.
immortaliser.]
1. To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever.
--S. Clarke.
2. To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame.
Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his quilty
name. --T. Dawes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Immortalize \Im*mor"tal*ize\, v. i.
To become immortal. [R.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
immortalize
v 1: be a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture
commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"
[syn: {commemorate}, {memorialize}, {immortalise}, {record}]
2: make famous for ever [syn: {immortalise}, {eternize}, {eternise},
{eternalize}, {eternalise}]
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