eternalize
verbEtymology From eternal + -ize.
1
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:
- Synonyms
- eternalize, eternize, immortalize, perpetuate
- Antonyms
- deimmortalize, mortalize
- Derived terms
- eternalization