| be | represent, speak for |
| blazon | description, representation, delineation |
| boy | represent by a boy, reduce to a boy-actor level [boys played the female parts in Shakespeare's time] |
| breech | breeches, trousers [representing the authority of the husband] |
| Cambyses | [pron: kam'biyseez] 6th-c BC king of the Medes and Persians, as represented in a 16th-c play by Thomas Preston, Cambyses |
| cipher | symbolize, represent, portray |
| denote | portray, depict, represent |
| draw | picture, represent, frame |
| face | representation, image; skull |
| factor | agent, representative, broker |
| figure | symbolize, represent, portray |
| give | portray, report, represent |
| image | representation, depiction, portrayal |
| import | represent, depict, indicate |
| Iniquity | comic character representing vice in morality plays |
| legate | papal representative |
| leiger | resident ambassador, representative, envoy |
| lieger | resident ambassador, representative, envoy |
| man | agent, representative |
| mocking | imitation, representation, impression |
| name | signature [representing a pledge] |
| painted | depicted, represented [as on a sign] |
| pass | represent, impersonate, perform |
| personate | stand for, represent, symbolize |
| personate | describe, represent, delineate |
| personating | representation, symbolic portrayal |
| picture | depict, represent, portray |
| present | act, represent, play the part of |
| present | symbolize, represent, suggest |
| render | describe, represent, depict [as] |
| reprehend | malapropism for ‘represent’ |
| showing | visible form, printed form, visual representation |
| spell backward | misrepresent, distort, conjure up a bad image of |
| stand | represent, serve, uphold |
| stand | stand in, impersonate, represent |
| sympathize | capture, represent fittingly, express with feeling |
| tirra-lyra | onomatopoeic representation of the sound of the lark |
| token | betoken, represent, be a sign of |
| urge | bring forward, advocate, represent |
| use | represent, stand in place of |
| vice | (usually capitalized) buffoon, stage jester; a character representing vice in morality plays |
| word | represent in words, give a reputation |
| yield | communicate, deliver, represent |