Memorialize

Quick meaning: Memorialize is a verb meaning (transitive) To provide a memorial for someone; to commemorate.

Meaning

(transitive) To provide a memorial for someone; to commemorate.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, social media) To convert (someone’s profile) into a memorial site/page (e.g. on Facebook).
2. (transitive, law) To create a written record of a meeting or conversation.
3. (transitive, dated) To petition with a memorial, or statement of facts.

Example Sentences

In this passage, Andromaque sees Astyanax only through the memorializing lens of his attribution to Hector, his status as "gage."

Why, you'll—you'll ask till they tell you. Then you'll memorialize that Department (according to regular forms which you'll find out) for leave to memorialize this Department.

Facebook says people with memorialized accounts do not appear in advertisements or birthday reminders on the site and are also excluded from the People You May Know list of friend suggestions.

Most of the time, the National Security Council — the foreign policy arm of the White House — memorializes presidential phone or video calls with foreign heads of state on the so-called TNet system, the officials said.

Word Forms

• memorializes
• memorializing
• memorialized
• memorialise

Synonyms for memorialize

Depending on context, synonyms include commemorate, immortalize, record.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include commemorate, record, immortalize, commemorize, monument, rememorialize.

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