Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To provide a memorial for; commemorate.
- transitive verb To present a memorial to; petition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To present a memorial to; petition by memorial.
- To commemorate.
- Also spelled
memorialise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb US To provide a
memorial for someone; tocommemorate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
- verb address in a memorial
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Examples
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Administrators then "memorialize" the account by removing sensitive information while leaving photos and friends' public messages on display.
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Administrators then "memorialize" the account by removing sensitive information while leaving photos and friends' public messages on display.
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Administrators then "memorialize" the account by removing sensitive information while leaving photos and friends' public messages on display.
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WHITFIELD: Yes, and what you don't see because the trees are, of course, in the way in, T.J., right there in Centennial Park, those big, beautiful pillars that are right in the middle of the park that decorate and kind of memorialize the Olympic Park, a lot of those were just torn down as if they were toothpicks.
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Most New Yorkers do NOT especially care if the rest of the country wants to "memorialize" 9/11--those of us who were there just want to go a single day without having to see the same footage--the planes crashing, the towers collapsing, and the other nightmare images.
Archive 2004-09-01 2004
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The words “memorial,” “memorize,” and “membership” are all etymologically linked: To memorialize is to remember, and to remember is to recall one’s own or another’s membership within a human community.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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The words “memorial,” “memorize,” and “membership” are all etymologically linked: To memorialize is to remember, and to remember is to recall one’s own or another’s membership within a human community.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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The words “memorial,” “memorize,” and “membership” are all etymologically linked: To memorialize is to remember, and to remember is to recall one’s own or another’s membership within a human community.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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It explains that friends or family of the deceased person can contact Facebook, which will then "memorialize" the page.
The Seattle Times 2011
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When their son died at the age of 22, the Keddals wanted a way to "memorialize" everything
oroboros commented on the word memorialize
memoRiAliZE
May 13, 2008