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commemorate

/kəˈmɛmɚˌeɪt/ · 11 letters · 7 distinct letters

  1. verb

    celebrate by some ceremony or observation

    The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade

  2. verb

    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

  3. verb

    be or provide a memorial to a person or an event

    This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps

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