monumentalize v record or memorialize lastingly with a monument Usage(s) With the Jolly Green Giant, he resurrected a pagan harvest god to monumentalize "the bounty of the good earth" and to sell peas. With the Jolly Green Giant, he resurrected a pagan harvest god to monumentalize "the bounty of the good earth"--and to sell peas. To monumentalize themmake them stand out in three-dimensional reliefallow them to be felt, touched, tasted, chewed over. Synonym(s) monumentalise