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verb (v)

• mark by some ceremony or observation(verb.cognition)

  Synonym:
  mark
  

  source: wordnet30
• call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony(verb.cognition)

  Synonym:
  remember
  

  source: wordnet30
• be or provide a memorial to a person or an event(verb.cognition)

  Example:
  This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps.
  

  Synonym:
  immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize, record
  

  source: wordnet30
• To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect or affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; to commemorate the Declaration of Independence by the observance of the Fourth of July.(verb)

  source: webster1913