commemorate
/kəˈmɛməˌɹeɪt/ verb B2- To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony or object. · On November 11th we commemorate the fallen with a march.
- To serve as a memorial to someone or something. · The cenotaph commemorates the fallen.
He/she/it commemorates · Past commemorated · Past participle commemorated · -ing form commemorating
Verb forms
- Base form
- commemorate
- He/she/it
- commemorates
- Past
- commemorated
- Past participle
- commemorated
- -ing form
- commemorating
From the library
Even when you knew me first, at the time of the affair which you have commemorated in ‘A Study in Scarlet,’ I had already established a considerable, though not a very lucrative, connection.
If we wanted to conceal the noble action this purse commemorates, we should not expose it thus to view.
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