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eternalize

eternalize verb: to make eternal; to immortalize.

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

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Forms of eternalize

third-person singular presenteternalizes
present participleeternalizing
past participleeternalized
pasteternalized

Origin of eternalize

From eternal + -ize.

Words formed from eternalize

Questions about eternalize

What does eternalize mean?
Eternalize means to make eternal; to immortalize.
What part of speech is eternalize?
Eternalize is a verb.
What is the past tense of eternalize?
The past tense of eternalize is eternalized.

Words near eternalize in the dictionary

  1. eternalist
  2. eternalists
  3. eternality
  4. eternalization
  5. eternalizations
  6. eternalize
  7. eternalized
  8. eternalizes
  9. eternalizing
  10. eternall
  11. eternally

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