im·mor·tal·ize immortalizes immortalizing immortalized in BRIT, also use immortalise If someone or something is immortalized in a story, film, or work of art, they appear in it, and will be remembered for it. The town of Whitby was immortalised in Bram Stoker's famous Dracula story D H Lawrence immortalised her in his novel `Women in Love'. to make someone or something famous for a long time, especially by writing about them, painting a picture of them etc