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commemorate

Dictionary definition · commemorate

verb

  1. celebrate by some ceremony or observation"The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade"
  2. 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. be or provide a memorial to a person or an event"This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).