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Webster 1913 Edition


Immortalize

Im-mor′tal-ize

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Immortalized
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Immortalizing
.]
[Cf. F.
immortaliser
.]
1.
To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever.
S. Clarke.
2.
To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame.
Alexander had no Homer to
immortalize
his guilty name.
T. Dawes.

Im-mor′tal-ize

,
Verb.
I.
To become immortal.
[R.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Immortalize

IMMOR'TALIZE

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To render immortal; to make perpetual; to cause to live or exist while the world shall endure. The Iliad has immortalized the name of Homer.
Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his guilty name.
2.
To exempt from oblivion; to make perpetual.

IMMOR'TALIZE

,
Verb.
I.
To become immortal. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


immortalize

immortalize

English

Verb

immortalize (third-person singular simple present immortalizes, present participle immortalizing, simple past and past participle immortalized)

  1. (American, Oxford British English) Alternative spelling of immortalise
  2. (biology) To remove the effects of normal apoptosis

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