Definitions
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- verb transitive To give
unending life to, to makeimmortal . - verb transitive To make
eternally famous.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make famous forever
- verb be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mark didn't yell "If it's just me and your grandmother on the bongos, it's still the Fall" at the audience during the 1998 Brownies gig; as far as I know Mark didn't "immortalise" Nigel Kennedy in a song called "Fiend with a Violin", etc.
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That these conditions could produce such a work of generosity and empathy as The Rainbow is mysterious and miraculous; and indeed the mystery and the miracle of creation is what this novel sets out both to evoke and to immortalise at the core of ordinary life.
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In the past, Poland created its brand by mounting an armed insurrection against Russian rule, and then having romantic poets such as Adam Mickiewicz immortalise the martrydom of this "Christ among nations".
Poland: a country getting to grips with being normal at last
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As if the statue made of bronze standing in Wisconsin wasn't enough to immortalise the memory of Winkler's alias, Fonzie, now he's got an OBE, too.
Our pick of the week: The story, the stat, the quote, the tweet
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It was the timeless quality of a pretty West Country village that persuaded the poet TS Eliot to immortalise it in his Nobel award-winning Four Quartets.
East Coker, TS Eliot's placid village, resists threat of housing invasion
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The drama of Karski's story has inspired the producer of The King's Speech, Iain Canning, to immortalise his role in another historic epic.
Earliest eyewitness account of the Holocaust finally to be published in UK
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He returned home hoping to immortalise his experiences in poetry, and he worked briefly on DC Thomson's comics before the Edinburgh literary scene bested him ( "I had plenty to say but I didn't know how to say it").
Observer Ethical Awards: Gordon Roddick, Lifetime Achievement Award
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"La poésie immortalise tout ce qu'il y a de meilleur et de plus beau dans le monde."
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"La poésie immortalise tout ce qu'il y a de meilleur et de plus beau dans le monde."
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Can she ever imagine being able to immortalise Missy in a work?
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