iconize

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Related to iconizes: stirred up, overhyped, reacquainted

iconize

(ˈaɪkəˌnaɪz) or

iconise

vb
to portray (someone) as an icon
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The 'table' iconizes a collection of values and principles such as strong family bonds, and it also resembles the rich and poor depending on the items settled on the table.
Thus, hand, tile, and water become potent, universal symbols, representing both the laborers whom she iconizes and the timelessness of their historical role.
Marco Denevi's 1986 work, Enciclopedia secreta de una familia argentina, wryly iconizes Borges's famous assertion that "no hay clasificacion del universo que no sea arbitraria y conjetural" (OC 2: 86).
Beginning with the 1963 internationally award-winning play Oba Koso (Sango didn't hang) by Duro Ladipo, and discussion of how this play went on to influence all aspects of cinema and theatrical performances of Sango ever since, Adeleke embraces semiotics and mediumship to support the notion that Ladipo's performance of Sango is the penultimate example of Sango, i.e., the actor is not just performing Sango but rather he iconizes Sango.
It becomes a trope that iconizes Hmong for all time.
Certainly The House of Mirth, probably her best-known work, takes to pieces a society which iconizes fashion adherence and which is merciless in its power to create and to destroy reputations overnight.
299, Faure will state that awakening itself is a ritual reenactment of it); therefore, it iconizes the "death" that transcends time and death.