immortalize
verb (used with object)
to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
immortalizing
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present participleof immortalize.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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As De Palma’s masterpiece reminds us, love can be just as immortalizing as film.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
Although a passionate reader, he was a terrible speller, immortalizing “tea” as “tae” in a 1961 painting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Movie legend Tom Cruise and the player's pop star-turned-fashion designer wife Victoria Beckham will be at the ceremony on June 12 to unveil the plaque immortalizing the British midfielder on Hollywood's most famous thoroughfare.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
One wrote: “You have to take responsibility for immortalizing an idiot.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2023
Haas, an archaeologist at the Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago, had plucked the fabric from the earth minutes before, two graduate students immortalizing the operation with digital cameras.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
