verb (v)

• express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol(verb.communication)

  Example:
  What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?.
  

  Synonym:
  represent, stand for, symbolise, typify
  

  source: wordnet30
• represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols(verb.communication)

  Example:
  The poet symbolizes love in this poem.
  These painters believed that artists should symbolize.
  

  Synonym:
  symbolise
  

  source: wordnet30
• To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.(verb)

  source: webster1913
• To make to agree in properties or qualities.(verb)

  source: webster1913