verb
1. represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols
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The poet symbolizes love in this poem
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These painters believed that artists should symbolize
• Syn: ↑symbolize
• Derivationally related forms: ↑symbolisation, ↑symbolization (for: ↑symbolize)
• Hypernyms: ↑represent
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s
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Somebody ——s something
2. express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol
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What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?
• Derivationally related forms:
↑representative (for: ↑represent), ↑representation (for: ↑represent), ↑symbolisation, ↑symboliser, ↑symbol, ↑symbolization (for: ↑symbolize), ↑symbolizer (for: ↑symbolize), ↑symbolizing (for: ↑symbolize), ↑symbol (for: ↑symbolize), ↑typification (for: ↑typify)
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s something
Useful english dictionary. 2012.