Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make immortal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To render immortal; endow with immortality: as, the demigods immortalized by Jupiter.
- To exempt from oblivion; bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
- To become immortal.
- Also spelled
immortalise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To become immortal.
- transitive verb To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever.
- transitive verb To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb American Alternative spelling of
immortalise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make famous forever
- verb be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
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Examples
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I wanted to start doing some clips with my baby girl in order to 'immortalize' her.
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I wanted to start doing some clips with my baby girl in order to 'immortalize' her.
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One feat researchers have accomplished in the lab is using telomerase to "immortalize" human cells.
Making Cells Live Forever in Quest for Cures Shirley S. Wang 2010
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One feat researchers have accomplished in the lab is using telomerase to "immortalize" human cells.
Making Cells Live Forever in Quest for Cures Shirley S. Wang 2010
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One feat researchers have accomplished in the lab is using telomerase to "immortalize" human cells.
Making Cells Live Forever in Quest for Cures Shirley S. Wang 2010
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There is no doubt citizens protesting the results of the June presidential election have made efficient use of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and blogs to 'immortalize' their movement and broadcast scenes of violence by security forces, but the centerpoint of this movement are the people and not technology.
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Michael Jackson friends and fans are making an effort to pay tribute to and "immortalize" the 'King of Pop'.
unknown title 2009
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There is no doubt citizens protesting the results of the June presidential election have made efficient use of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and blogs to 'immortalize' their movement and broadcast scenes of violence by security forces, but the centerpoint of this movement are the people and not technology.
Global Voices Online 2009
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Well if they can "immortalize" liver cells, then why can't they immortalized * all* of my cells?
doggdot.us 2009
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Well if they can "immortalize" liver cells, then why can't they immortalized * all* of my cells?
doggdot.us 2009
Prolagus commented on the word immortalize
Does it also mean "to take a photo of an event" as the Italian word immortalare?
July 30, 2008
yarb commented on the word immortalize
Yes, I'm sure it would be understood in that sense. Certainly we speak of people or events being "immortalized" in other artforms - sculpture, painting, song, &c. - especially where the artwork itself becomes famous. The Charge of the Light Brigade was immortalized by Tennyson, for example. To say "I have immortalized your 40th birthday in these photos" might sound a little grandiloquent, though.
July 30, 2008