To record or commemorate by a monument; record permanently; render monumental in character.
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v. record or memorialize lastingly with a monument
Word Usage
"Refusing to monumentalize, disdaining the "final word," the precise "summing up," acknowledging their "poor power to add or detract", his words signal deference to the uncapturability of the life it mourns."