Definition of Memorialize

1. Verb. Address in a memorial. "The President memorialized the heroes of the battle"

Exact synonyms: Memorialise
Generic synonyms: Address, Speak
Derivative terms: Memorialisation, Memorialization

2. Verb. Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event. "We memorialized the Dead"
Exact synonyms: Commemorate, Immortalise, Immortalize, Memorialise, Record
Generic synonyms: Remind
Specialized synonyms: Monumentalise, Monumentalize
Derivative terms: Commemoration, Commemorative, Memorial, Memorial, Record

Definition of Memorialize

1. v. t. To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature.

Definition of Memorialize

1. Verb. (American English) To provide a memorial for someone; to commemorate ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Memorialize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Memorialize

memorative
memorial
memorial park
memorial parks
memorial service
memorial services
memorial tablet
memorialisation
memorialise
memorialised
memorialises
memorialising
memorialist
memorialists
memorialization
memorialize
memorialized
memorializer
memorializers
memorializes
memorializing
memorially
memorials
memoried
memories
memorious
memorisation
memorisations
memorise
memorised

Literary usage of Memorialize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1905)
"REPORT OF COMMITTEE TO Memorialize CONGRESS IN FAVOR OF NATIONAL AID TO EDUCATION IN THE TERRITORIES. That the memorial hereto attached was presented last ..."

2. Report by Indians Rights Association (1904)
"REPORT OF COMMITTEE TO Memorialize CONGRESS IN FAVOR OF NATIONAL AID TO ... LYMAN ABBOTT: Your Committee appointed last year to memorialize Congress in ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1879)
"THE Special Committee appointed at the twenty-second meeting of this Association, to memorialize Congress and State Legislatures regarding the cultivation ..."

4. History of Dakota Territory by George Washington Kingsbury, George Martin Smith (1915)
"A reference to the agricultural college located at Brookings by the last Legislature is made, and the recommendation made that the Legislature memorialize ..."

5. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1879)
"THE Special Committee appointed at the twenty.second meeting of this Association, to memorialize Congress and State Legislatures regarding the cultivation ..."

6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"It was resolved to memorialize Congress to give free homes to the future State of Indianola, to be formed from the territory of the five tribes, ..."

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