immortalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
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to make immortal; endow with immortality.
verb
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to give everlasting fame to, as by treating in a literary work
Macbeth was immortalized by Shakespeare
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to give immortality to
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biology to cause (cells) to reproduce indefinitely
Other Word Forms
- immortalizable adjective
- immortalization noun
- immortalizer noun
Etymology
Origin of immortalize
Example Sentences
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The pharaohs of ancient Egypt built pyramids in the Valley of Kings to immortalize themselves.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 5, 2025
Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, Twain grew up in the slaveholding community of Hannibal, Mo., a town he would immortalize in “Huckleberry Finn” and its prequel, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025
She was 8 when the family moved to the riverside farm Aldo Leopold would immortalize in “A Sand County Almanac.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2024
Juanita McNeely, an uncompromising painter who used the language of Expressionism to immortalize the sweetest and most brutal moments of her own female experience, died on Oct.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2023
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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