Memorialize
verb
To do or create something that helps to remember a person or event.
They memorialized the war heroes by erecting statues.
Often appears as...
- memorialize a person
- memorialize an event
verb
To put something into a permanent form, especially in writing.
The court's decision was memorialized in a written document.
Often appears as...
- memorialize a decision
- memorialize an agreement
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verb
To do or create something that helps to remember a person or event.
They memorialized the war heroes by erecting statues.
Often appears as...
- memorialize a person
- memorialize an event
verb
To put something into a permanent form, especially in writing.
The court's decision was memorialized in a written document.
Often appears as...
- memorialize a decision
- memorialize an agreement
Usage tips
Formal
Legal
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Tone
Memorialize carries strong emotions, often related to respect and remembrance for those who have passed away or historical events.
The plaque at the park memorializes the community leader who worked tirelessly for peace.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Tributes
Memorialize often involves creating or using physical objects like statues, plaques, or memorial gardens.
The new sculpture will memorialize the pioneers of space exploration.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Positive
Sometimes, events are memorialized not to celebrate, but to remind us of past tragedies and lessons learned.
The museum exhibit memorializes the soldiers and civilians who suffered during the war.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Tone
Memorialize carries strong emotions, often related to respect and remembrance for those who have passed away or historical events.
The plaque at the park memorializes the community leader who worked tirelessly for peace.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Tributes
Memorialize often involves creating or using physical objects like statues, plaques, or memorial gardens.
The new sculpture will memorialize the pioneers of space exploration.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Positive
Sometimes, events are memorialized not to celebrate, but to remind us of past tragedies and lessons learned.
The museum exhibit memorializes the soldiers and civilians who suffered during the war.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Tone
Memorialize carries strong emotions, often related to respect and remembrance for those who have passed away or historical events.
The plaque at the park memorializes the community leader who worked tirelessly for peace.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Tributes
Memorialize often involves creating or using physical objects like statues, plaques, or memorial gardens.
The new sculpture will memorialize the pioneers of space exploration.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Positive
Sometimes, events are memorialized not to celebrate, but to remind us of past tragedies and lessons learned.
The museum exhibit memorializes the soldiers and civilians who suffered during the war.
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Debunking the myth of...
both met with UDC members and enabled them to memorialize the Confederacy in Arlington National Cemetery. The UDC still exists and defends Confederate symbols as part of a noble heritage of sacrifice by their ancestors. Despite the wealth of primary sources showing that slavery was the root cause of the Civil War,
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Gabriel Barcia-Colombo:...
and how I'd like to memorialize my life, you know, for the ages, and also — — the lives of my friends, but the problem with this is that my friends aren't quite keen on the idea of me taxidermy-ing them. So instead, I turned to video, and video is the next best way to preserve and memorialize
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The urgent need for...
decades of terrorism and violence and the lynching that we are trying to memorialize terrorize people of color in this community we've never talked about thousands of people pulled into the
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Cattoos: How This Tattoo...
just knew I had to memorialize her with a tattoo so she's now on my arm and with me forever
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Debunking the myth of...
both met with UDC members and enabled them to memorialize the Confederacy in Arlington National Cemetery. The UDC still exists and defends Confederate symbols as part of a noble heritage of sacrifice by their ancestors. Despite the wealth of primary sources showing that slavery was the root cause of the Civil War,
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Gabriel Barcia-Colombo:...
and how I'd like to memorialize my life, you know, for the ages, and also — — the lives of my friends, but the problem with this is that my friends aren't quite keen on the idea of me taxidermy-ing them. So instead, I turned to video, and video is the next best way to preserve and memorialize
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The urgent need for...
decades of terrorism and violence and the lynching that we are trying to memorialize terrorize people of color in this community we've never talked about thousands of people pulled into the
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Cattoos: How This Tattoo...
just knew I had to memorialize her with a tattoo so she's now on my arm and with me forever
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Quote examples
Mickalene Thomas
American Artist
My artistic decision to cast my mother's objects into bronze moves beyond the notions of memorializing her. I've been fascinated for some time with the idea of monumentality and what it means to memorialize. Both of these notions are relevant historically, artistically, and culturally.
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Jamie Johnson
American Director
Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration.
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David Perlmutter
American Scientist
When we are exposed to a real or perceived threatening situation, powerful things happen in the brain to memorialize aspects of the event, including all manner of associated circumstances like where, when and how it occurred.
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Joyce Carol Oates
American Novelist
I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.
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Thomas Newman
American Composer
I realized so much of my life hasn't been in a well-lit room, and I realized the importance of documenting my experiences as a way to memorialize them.
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Herbert A. Simon
American Economist
The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare.
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George Pataki
American Politician
First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.
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Joyce Carol Oates
American Novelist
One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.
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Mickalene Thomas
American Artist
My artistic decision to cast my mother's objects into bronze moves beyond the notions of memorializing her. I've been fascinated for some time with the idea of monumentality and what it means to memorialize. Both of these notions are relevant historically, artistically, and culturally.
Quote examples
Jamie Johnson
American Director
Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration.
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David Perlmutter
American Scientist
When we are exposed to a real or perceived threatening situation, powerful things happen in the brain to memorialize aspects of the event, including all manner of associated circumstances like where, when and how it occurred.
Quote examples
Joyce Carol Oates
American Novelist
I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.
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Thomas Newman
American Composer
I realized so much of my life hasn't been in a well-lit room, and I realized the importance of documenting my experiences as a way to memorialize them.
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Herbert A. Simon
American Economist
The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare.
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George Pataki
American Politician
First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.
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Joyce Carol Oates
American Novelist
One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.
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