Verb: immortalize i'mor-tu,lIz
- Make famous forever
"This melody immortalized its composer";
- immortalise [Brit], eternize, eternise [Brit], eternalize, eternalise [Brit]
- Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
"This sculpture immortalizes the victims of the concentration camps";
- commemorate, memorialize, memorialise [Brit], immortalise [Brit]
Derived forms: immortalized, immortalizes, immortalizing