monumentalize

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verb

To make something become or appear monumental

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Meanings

verbmonumentalize (third-person singular simple present monumentalizes, present participle monumentalizing, simple past and past participle monumentalized)

present singular third person monumentalizes · participle present monumentalizing · participle past monumentalized · past monumentalized · alternative monumentalise

  1. To make something become or appear monumental

    The film follows three days in her regulated life, and Akerman's intense concentration on her daily activities, monumentalized by Babette Mangolte's superb cinematography and mainly frontal camera setups[…].

    1988 January 22, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”, in Chicago Reader

Synonyms & antonyms

verbrecord or memorialize lastingly with a monument

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monumentalise
Broader
commemoratememorializememorialise

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From monumental + -ize.

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Cite this entry
APA

monumentalize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monumentalize

MLA

“monumentalize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monumentalize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “monumentalize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monumentalize.

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