symbolize

Verb

Meaning

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

To hold the same faith; to agree.

To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.

To make to agree in properties or qualities.

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

To represent by a symbol or symbols.

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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. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity. Mark Tobey

Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe who got even with the conquerors, the poorly educated son of a servant who rose against the intellectual elite. Mengistu Haile Mariam

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. Honoré de Balzac

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

They [The Mason family where Hartley stayed 1935 - 1941] maintain an enviable balance between the material & spiritual worlds (so) they symbolize for me the term ideal. Marsden Hartley

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