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eternalise

eternalise is the alternative form of eternalize.

Meaning of eternalize

Verb

eternalize (third-person singular simple present eternalizes, present participle eternalizing, simple past and past participle eternalized)

  1. (transitive) To make eternal; to immortalize.
    • This occasions a flood of recollected sensory detail, Updike at his best, an eternalizing of the moment of that kiss which stands in defiance of age and decrepitude and the bone cancer winnowing Mamie in the prison of her reduced self.2009 June 7, T. Coraghessan Boyle, “The Road Home”, in New York Times

Forms of eternalise

third-person singular presenteternalises
present participleeternalising
past participleeternalised
pasteternalised

Questions about eternalise

What is eternalise the alternative form of?
Eternalise is the alternative form of eternalize.

Words near eternalise in the dictionary

  1. eternal sleep
  2. eternal triangle
  3. eternal triangles
  4. eternalisation
  5. eternalisations
  6. eternalise
  7. eternalised
  8. eternalises
  9. eternalising
  10. eternalism
  11. eternalist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eternalise (page history and authors); eternalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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