Commemorated vs Commemorates - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between commemorated and commemorates

is that commemorated is (commemorate) while commemorates is .

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(commemorate)

To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony.

* On November 11th we commemorate the fallen with a march.

To serve as a memorial to someone or something.

* The cenotaph commemorates the fallen.

* memorialize

* commemorative * commemoration English transitive verbs ----

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(commemorate)