Sentence:  His name is Praisegod Piepsam , and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author 's repertory - he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death in Venice '' , for example , who <WSD>represent</WSD> some combination of cadaver , exotic , and psychopomp . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol