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immortalise en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɪˈmɔː(ɹ).təˌlaɪz/
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Etymology

From immortal + -ise. Perhaps modelled on Middle French immortaliser.

Meanings

1. To give unending life to, to make immortal.
   • The meek intelligence of thoſe dear eyes / (Bleſt be the art that can immortalize, / The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim / To quench it) here ſhines on me ſtill the ſame. 1790, William Cowper, “On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture out of Norfolk. The Gift of My Cousin Ann Bodham.”, in Poems […], London: […] [F]or J[oseph] Johnson, […] by T[homas] Bensley, […], published 1806, →OCLC, page 579:
2. To make eternally famous.
   • There is a local rhyme which says: Culbone, Oare and Stoke Pero Are three such places as you seldom hear o'. Stoke Pero and Culbone are equally remote hamlets, respectively 5 miles south-east and 2½ miles east of Oare, a village of which few would have heard had not Blackmore [(R. D. Blackmore)] immortalised it. 1980, AA Book of English Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 302, about Oare:
   • His heroic deeds were immortalised in song and tale.
   • The clocks at either end of the stadium had just ticked past 92 minutes when Branislav Ivanovic made the run that will immortalise him in Chelsea's history. 2013 May 15, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:
   • Performing groups, including stilt walkers and musical bands, draw crowds to one of the most elaborate processions in Taiwan, held in Hsuehchia 學甲, Tainan County 台南縣, in honor of the tenth century healer, Wu Pen 吳本. Wu was later immortalized as the Great Emperor Pao Sheng 保生大帝. 1998, The Republic of China 1998 Yearbook, Government Information Office, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 717:

Forms

Deriveds

immortalisation · transimmortalised

Translations (33)

bg обезсмъртявам (to give unending life to) · es inmortalizar (to give unending life to) · az ölümsüzləşdirmək (to give unending life to) · id mengekalkan (to give unending life to) · fi tehdä kuolemattomaksi (to give unending life to) · pl utrwalić (to make eternally famous) · pl upamiętnić (to make eternally famous) · pl upamiętniać (to make eternally famous) · id mengabadikan (to give unending life to) · lij immortalizzâ (to give unending life to) · pl uwiecznić (to make eternally famous) · pl unieśmiertelnić (to make eternally famous) · gl inmortalizar (to make eternally famous) · pl utrwalać (to make eternally famous) · la aeterno (to give unending life to) · pt imortalizar (to make eternally famous) · gl inmortalizar (to give unending life to) · pt imortalizar (to give unending life to) · nl vereeuwigen (to make eternally famous) · da udødeliggøre (to make eternally famous) · es inmortalizar (to make eternally famous) · pl unieśmiertelniać (to make eternally famous) · pl uwieczniać (to make eternally famous) · tr ölümsüzleştirmek (to make eternally famous) · fr immortaliser (to make eternally famous) · fi ikuistaa (to make eternally famous) · az əbədiləşdirmək (to make eternally famous) · tr ölümsüzleştirmek (to give unending life to) · ca immortalitzar (to give unending life to) · ca immortalitzar (to make eternally famous) · bg увековечавам (to make eternally famous) · it immortalizzare (to give unending life to) · fr immortaliser (to give unending life to)