Difference between Commemorate and Immortalize

COMMEMORATE vs IMMORTALIZE: VERB

Call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
Mark by some ceremony or observation
To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony.
To serve as a memorial to someone or something.
Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event

To honor the memory of (a person or event, for example), especially with a ceremony. : observe.
To serve as a memorial to.
To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect or affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event.

Call to remembrance
Celebrate by some ceremony or observation
To preserve the memory of by a solemn act; celebrate with honor and solemnity; honor, as a person or an event, by some act of respect or affection, intended to keep him or it in memory.
To serve as a memento or remembrancer of; perpetuate or celebrate the memory of: as, a monument commemorating a great battle; a book commemorating the services of a philanthropist.

Also spelled immortalise.
To become immortal.
To exempt from oblivion; bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
To render immortal; endow with immortality: as, the demigods immortalized by Jupiter.

Celebrations, Salute, Marking, Memorial, Tribute, Honor, Remembrance, Commemorative, Celebrate, Commemoration, Record, Remember, Mark, Immortalize, Memorialize

Ennoble, Posterity, Resurrect, Mythologize, Eulogize, Recreate, Inscribe, Immortalise, Consecrate, Capture, Eternize, Record, Eternalize, Commemorate, Memorialize

Celebrations, Salute, Marking, Memorial, Tribute, Honor, Remembrance, Commemorative, Celebrate, Commemoration, Record, Remember, Mark, Immortalize, Memorialize

Depict, Cherish, Personify, Ennoble, Posterity, Resurrect, Mythologize, Recreate, Inscribe, Consecrate, Capture, Eternize, Record, Commemorate, Memorialize

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