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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
apish, delineatory, depictive, echoic, embodying, figurative, graphic, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imitative, incarnating, limning, mimetic, mimish, onomatopoeic, personifying, pictographic, pictorial, portraying, representational, representative, representing, simulative, typifying, vivid
Dictionary Results for symbolizing:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
symbolizing
    n 1: the act of representing something with a symbol [syn:
         symbolizing, symbolising]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Symbolize \Sym"bol*ize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Symbolized; p.
   pr. & vb. n. Symbolizing.] [Cf. F. symboliser.]
   1. To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to
      correspond; to harmonize.
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            The pleasing of color symbolizeth with the pleasing
            of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of
            order doth symbolize with harmony.    --Bacon.
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            They both symbolize in this, that they love to look
            upon themselves through multiplying glasses.
                                                  --Howell.
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   2. To hold the same faith; to agree. [R.]
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            The believers in pretended miracles have always
            previously symbolized with the performers of them.
                                                  --G. S. Faber.
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   3. To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
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