memorializing

Verb

memorialize (third-person singular simple present memorializes, present participle memorializing, simple past and past participle memorialized)

1. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive) To provide a memorial for someone; to commemorate.
   • In this passage, Andromaque sees Astyanax only through the memorializing lens of his attribution to Hector, his status as "gage."2008, Roland Racevskis, Tragic Passages: Jean Racine's Art of the Threshold, page 85
2. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive, social media) To convert (someone’s profile) into a memorial site/page (e.g. on Facebook).
   • Facebook says people with memorialized accounts do not appear in advertisements or birthday reminders on the site and are also excluded from the People You May Know list of friend suggestions.2015 May 20, J. D. Biersdorfer, “Unlike You, Your Facebook Account Can Be Immortal”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
3. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive) To create a written record of a meeting or conversation.
   • Most of the time, the National Security Council — the foreign policy arm of the White House — memorializes presidential phone or video calls with foreign heads of state on the so-called TNet system, the officials said.2019 October 1, Charlie Savage, Matthew Rosenberg and Adam Goldman, “The Extra-Secret White House Computer System, Explained”, in The New York Times
4. (British, English, Oxford, US, dated, transitive) To petition with a memorial, or statement of facts.
   • Why, you'll—you'll ask till they tell you. Then you'll memorialize that Department (according to regular forms which you'll find out) for leave to memorialize this Department.1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC