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Memorialize vs Memorize - What's the difference?

memorialize | memorize |

As verbs the difference between memorialize and memorize

is that memorialize is to provide a memorial for someone; to commemorate while memorize is to learn by heart, commit to memory.

memorialize

English

Alternative forms

* memorialise (UK)

Verb

  • (US) To provide a memorial for someone; to commemorate

    • Derived terms

    * memorializer

    memorize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (UK) memorise

    Verb

  • to learn by heart, commit to memory
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  • * 2009 , A Practical Study of Argument (ISBN 0495603406), page 123:
    • Many years ago there was a rumor that a basketball star (Jerry Lucas of the New York Knicks) had memorized the entire Manhattan phone book.
  • * 2009 , Hailey Abbott, The Perfect Boy (ISBN 006197157X), page 258:
    • She was so used to the way he moved—they'd been practicing together for years, and she'd memorized the way his body worked.

    Derived terms

    * memorization