immortalise

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
18
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ɪˈmɔː(ɹ).təˌlaɪz/

Definition of immortalise

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To give unending life to, to make immortal.
    “The meek intelligence of thoſe dear eyes / (Bleſt be the art that can immortalize, / The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim / To quench it) here ſhines on me ſtill the ſame.”
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verb

  1. To give unending life to, to make immortal.
    “The meek intelligence of thoſe dear eyes / (Bleſt be the art that can immortalize, / The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim / To quench it) here ſhines on me ſtill the ſame.”
  2. To make eternally famous.
    “His heroic deeds were immortalised in song and tale.”
    “There is a local rhyme which says: Culbone, Oare and Stoke Pero Are three such places as you seldom hear o'. Stoke Pero and Culbone are equally remote hamlets, respectively 5 miles south-east and 2½ miles east of Oare, a village of which few would have heard had not Blackmore [(R. D. Blackmore)] immortalised it.”
    “Performing groups, including stilt walkers and musical bands, draw crowds to one of the most elaborate processions in Taiwan, held in Hsuehchia 學甲, Tainan County 台南縣, in honor of the tenth century healer, Wu Pen 吳本. Wu was later immortalized as the Great Emperor Pao Sheng 保生大帝.”
    “The clocks at either end of the stadium had just ticked past 92 minutes when Branislav Ivanovic made the run that will immortalise him in Chelsea's history.”

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Etymology

From immortal + -ise. Perhaps modelled on Middle French immortaliser.

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