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commemorate 音標拼音: [kəm'ɛmɚ ,et] vt. 紀念 紀念 commemorate v 1: mark by some ceremony or observation; " The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade" [ synonym: { commemorate}, { mark}] 2: call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony; " We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz"; " Remember the dead of the First World War" [ synonym: { commemorate}, { remember}] 3: be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; " This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; " We memorialized the Dead" [ synonym: { commemorate}, { memorialize}, { memorialise}, { immortalize}, { immortalise}, { record}] Commemorate \ Com* mem" o* rate\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Commemorated}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Commemorating}.] [ L. commemoratus, p. p. of commemorare to remember; com- memorare to mention, fr. memor mindful. See { Memory}.] 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; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord' s Supper; to commemorate the Declaration of Independence by the observance of the Fourth of July. [ 1913 Webster] We are called upon to commemorate a revolution. -- Atterbury. Syn: See { Celebrate}. [ 1913 Webster] 31 Moby Thesaurus words for " commemorate": beat the drum, blow the trumpet, celebrate, consecrate, dedicate, dress ship, fire a salute, hallow, hold jubilee, honor, immortalize, jubilate, jubilize, keep, maffick, make merry, mark, memorialize, monument, monumentalize, observe, remember, revere, reverence, salute, sanctify, signalize, solemnize, solemnly mark, sound a fanfare, venerate
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