To commemorate; to present a memorial to; to honor the memory of an individual or group by donating resources or establishing a fund that reflects the gifts, values or concerns of the individual or group
me·mo·ri·al·ize memorializes memorializing memorialized in BRIT, also use memorialise If a person or event is memorialized, something is produced that will continue to exist and remind people of them. He was praised in print and memorialized in stone throughout the South When she died in 1946, her friends wanted to memorialize her in some significant way. memorialise to do something so that a person or event will be remembered by people