Symbolize

[sym·bol·ize]

Use the verb symbolize when you use an image, shape, color, or other simple visual to stand for something else, like when you wear black to symbolize that you're mourning a loss.

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To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.

Verb
express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol; "What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?"

Verb
represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols; "The poet symbolizes love in this poem"; "These painters believed that artists should symbolize"


v. i.
To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.

v. i.
To hold the same faith; to agree.

v. i.
To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.

v. t.
To make to agree in properties or qualities.

v. t.
To make representative of something; to regard or treat as symbolic.

v. t.
To represent by a symbol or symbols.


Symbolize

Sym"bol*ize , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Symbolized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Symbolizing .] [Cf. F. symboliser.] 1. To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.
The pleasing of color symbolizeth with the pleasing of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of order doth symbolize with harmony.
They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses.
2. To hold the same faith; to agree. [R.]
The believers in pretended miracles have always previously symbolized with the performers of them.
3. To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.

Symbolize

Sym"bol*ize, v. t. 1. To make to agree in properties or qualities. 2. To make representative of something; to regard or treat as symbolic. "Some symbolize the same from the mystery of its colors." Sir T. Browne. 3. To represent by a symbol or symbols.

To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.

To make to agree in properties or qualities.

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Usage Examples

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality he carried the American flag.

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Other Usage Examples

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

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