im·mor·tal·ize

[ih-mawr-tl-ahyz]
verb (used with object), im·mor·tal·ized, im·mor·tal·iz·ing.
1.
to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
2.
to make immortal; endow with immortality.
Also, especially British, im·mor·tal·ise.


Origin:
1560–70; immortal + -ize

im·mor·ta·liz·a·ble, adjective
im·mor·tal·i·za·tion, noun
im·mor·tal·iz·er, noun
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immortalize or immortalise (ɪˈmɔːtəˌlaɪz) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
vb
1.  to give everlasting fame to, as by treating in a literary work: Macbeth was immortalized by Shakespeare
2.  to give immortality to
3.  biology to cause (cells) to reproduce indefinitely
 
immortalise or immortalise
 
vb
 
immortali'zation or immortalise
 
n
 
immortali'sation or immortalise
 
n
 
im'mortalizer or immortalise
 
n
 
im'mortaliser or immortalise
 
n

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Immortalized is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
One way he's being immortalized is in bronze and stone.
But there she is, immortalized in bronze, opposite parliament.
Great writers aren't always given their due, aren't always immortalized.
So both of their names ended up immortalized in the textbooks.
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