emblemize

[ em-bluh-mahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, em·blem·ized, em·blem·iz·ing.

1. emblematize.

Word History and Origins

Origin of emblemize¹

First recorded in 1630–40; emblem ( def ) + -ize ( def )

Example Sentences

The movie’s recurring use of the pattern, Ms. Weldon said, “came to emblemize the bad sexualized mother.”

From New York Times

Sixty-six years later – with newspapers less interested in philosophy than finance – Giacometti’s sculptures retain their iconic status, though what they emblemize is rather different.

From Forbes

What Zynga and similar companies emblemize is that the world has finally entered a structural revolution unlike anything since the dawn of computing.  

From Forbes

Gone, Diana seemed to emblemize the word; she was everything gone.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the values of American initiative need commending, Reagan will shed his spotlight on a Mother Hale of Harlem, as he did in the 1985 State of the Union message, and elevate one woman to emblemize an entire economic and social theory.

From Time Magazine Archive