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What does symbolize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word symbolize? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To be symbolic of; to represent.
  2. (intransitive) To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To resemble each other in qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.
  4. (intransitive, obsolete) To hold the same faith; to agree.
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You can drive yourself batty trying to figure out what every color is supposed to symbolize.
By providing them with the shorts it was intended to symbolize the spiritual and mental breakaway from traditional dress and thought.
The metric system and the imperial system symbolize beautifully the conflict between the European and the Anglo-Saxon method of thought.
The protesters sat silently near an empty chair meant to symbolize the absence of the professor.
Three beads of wampum separating the two purple rows symbolize peace, friendship and respect.
Micheaux uses the novel's two primary settings, South Dakota and Chicago, to symbolize these two states of being.

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