Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense memorializes, present participle memorializing, past tense, past participle memorializedregional note: in BRIT, also use memorialise
verb
If a person or event is memorialized, something is produced that will continue to exist and remind people of them.
He was praised in print and memorialized in stone throughout the South. [beVERB-ed]
Our affair was memorialized by those children. [beVERB-ed]
When she died in 1946, her friends wanted to memorialize her in some significantway. [VERB noun]
memorialize in British English
or memorialise (mɪˈmɔːrɪəˌlaɪz)
verb(transitive)
1.
to honour or commemorate
2.
to present or address a memorial to
Derived forms
memorialization (meˌmorialiˈzation) or memorialisation (meˌmorialiˈsation)
noun
memorializer (meˈmorialˌizer) or memorialiser (meˈmorialˌiser)
noun
memorialize in American English
(məˈmɔriəlˌaɪz)
verb transitiveWord forms: meˈmorialˌized or meˈmorialˌizing
1.
to commemorate
2.
to present a memorial to; petition
Examples of 'memorialize' in a sentence
memorialize
If the tables were turned and I was the one who had died, she'd probably be out there trying to memorialize my life.