Definition of "symbolize"

symbolize

/ˈsɪmbəlaɪz/

verb
third-person singular simple present symbolizes, present participle symbolizing, simple past and past participle symbolized
1. (transitive) To be symbolic of; to represent.
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  The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
  2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎
2. (intransitive) To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To resemble each other in qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.
  Quotations
  The pleasing of colour symbolizeth with the pleasing of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of order doth symbolize with harmony.
  1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […]
  They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses.
  1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […]
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To hold the same faith; to agree.
  Quotations
  The believers in pretended miracles have always previously symbolized with the performers of them.
  1824, George Stanley Faber, The Difficulties of Infidelity

Definition of "symbolize"

symbolize

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