symbolize
/ˈsɪmbəlaɪz/ verb B2- To be symbolic of; to represent. · Doves often symbolize peace.· The broken chain symbolizes freedom.
- To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
- To convert something into a symbol.
He/she/it symbolizes · Past symbolized · Past participle symbolized · -ing form symbolizing
Verb forms
- Base form
- symbolize
- He/she/it
- symbolizes
- Past
- symbolized
- Past participle
- symbolized
- -ing form
- symbolizing
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The two favorite studies of my youth were botany and mineralogy, and subsequently, when I learned that the use of simples frequently explained the whole history of a people, and the entire life of individuals in the East, as flowers betoken and symbolize a love affair, I have regretted that I was not a man, that I might have been a Flamel, a Fontana, or a Cabanis.”
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