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commemorate
verb
Call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
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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”
verb
Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
“This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps”
verb
Celebrate by some ceremony or observation
“The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade”
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We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
Remember the dead of the First World War
This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps
We memorialized the Dead
The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade
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