immortalize
/i'mɔ:təlaiz/ Cách viết khác : (immoralise) /i'mɔ:təlaiz/
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Definition
- Verb (transitive):
- To make someone or something famous forever; to cause to be remembered throughout time: The primary meaning is to confer lasting fame or remembrance upon a person, event, or thing, ensuring they are not forgotten.
- To be or serve as a memorial to someone or something; to commemorate: This meaning focuses on the act of preserving the memory of someone or something, often through a tangible object or enduring action.
Examples of Usage
- Verb: (The verses made the hero's bravery famous forever.) (That photograph preserved the memory of that joyful moment for all time.) (The monument serves as a lasting memorial to the soldiers.)
Advanced Usage
- "to be immortalized in something": To have one's memory preserved permanently within a specific medium (e.g., art, literature, history).
- Passive voice usage is very common: The subject is the person or thing being made famous.
Variants and Related Words
- Immortalization (noun): The act of immortalizing or the state of being immortalized.
- Immortal (adjective/noun): Living forever; not subject to death. As a noun, a being who lives forever, or a person of enduring fame.
Synonyms
- Perpetuate: To make something continue indefinitely.
- Commemorate: To serve as a memorial or reminder of; to honor the memory of.
- Memorialize: To preserve the memory of; often used similarly to the second definition of 'immortalize'.
- Eternalize: To make eternal or everlasting (less common).
Antonyms
- Obliterate: To remove all traces of; to destroy completely.
- Forget: To fail to remember.
- Efface: To erase or make indistinct.
Related Phrases and Constructions
- "Go down in history immortalized as...": To be remembered in history in a specific, famous way.
- "A name immortalized": Referring to a person whose name will never be forgotten.
Verb
- make famous forever
- This melody immortalized its composer
- be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
- This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps
- We memorialized the Dead