From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishimmortalizeim‧mor‧tal‧ize (also immortalise British English) /ɪˈmɔːtəlaɪz $ -ɔːr-/ verb [transitive] FAMOUSto make someone or something famous for a long time, especially by writing about them, painting a picture of them etc Dickens’ father was immortalized as Mr Micawber in ‘David Copperfield’.Grammar Immortalize is usually passive.→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
immortalize• He was determined to be remembered, immortalized.• But the rank-and-file glories immortalized by Malraux have faded into the history books.• Gregg immortalized himself by replying that his ammunition was exhausted but that he thought he could hold with the bayonet.• The Choptank is the river immortalized in James Michener's novel "Chesapeake."• Morgan and Virgil Earp were wounded in the exchange, which has been immortalized in Western lore.• He would immortalize Jack and vindicate himself from his culpable grief by becoming what Jack would have been.• Luckily, her husband found George Brownlee to immortalize the middle-aged bear in wood. 