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Verb: commemorate  ku'me-mu,reyt
  1. Celebrate by some ceremony or observation
    "The citizens commemorate the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade";
    - mark
     
  2. Call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
    "We commemorated the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz";
    - remember
     
  3. Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event
    "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps";
    - memorialize, memorialise [Brit], immortalize, immortalise [Brit]

Derived forms: commemorating, commemorates, commemorated

Type of: celebrate, keep, observe, remind