immortalize in WordNet English dictionary

1. be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
   "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead"
   commemorate  memorialize  memorialise  immortalize  immortalise  record 
   
2. make famous forever
   "This melody immortalized its composer"
   immortalize  immortalise  eternize  eternise  eternalize  eternalise