immortalize
verb (used with object)
to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
immortalizes
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present tense formof immortalize (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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At Notre Dame: The movie “Rudy” immortalizes a real-life 1975 Notre Dame-Georgia Tech game in which a walk-on football player and a teammate sacked the opposing quarterback, helping the Fighting Irish win 24-3.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
Diltz captures the mischief in Young, immortalizes him as an agent of chaos, the kind of guy who might show up one day with a bush baby on his shoulder.
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
It immortalizes himself and the artist Toxic with Rammellzee, who is wearing wraparound mirror shades like the Terminator.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
The main character in “Peking Duck” is a writer who immortalizes some memories of her immigrant mother’s lived experiences in her fiction but assures her mom that the characters aren’t her.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2022
The graffiti on the walls was marked by Deckers and their friends, sometimes the last piece of themselves the Deckers have left behind, something that immortalizes them.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
