symbolize

Meanings

Verb

• express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol
  • "What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?"
• represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols
  • "The poet symbolizes love in this poem"
  • "These painters believed that artists should symbolize"
• To be symbolic of; to represent.
• To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
• To resemble each other in qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.
• To hold the same faith; to agree.

Synonyms

harmonize, represent, stand for, symbolise, typify