EMBODY

embody, be, personify

(verb) represent, as of a character on stage; “Derek Jacobi was Hamlet”

incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate

(verb) represent in bodily form; “He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system”; “The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist”

embody

(verb) represent or express something abstract in tangible form; “This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

embody (third-person singular simple present embodies, present participle embodying, simple past and past participle embodied)

(transitive) To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify.

(transitive) To represent in some other form, such as a code of laws.

(transitive) To comprise or include as part of a cohesive whole; to be made up of.

(intransitive) To unite in a body or mass.

Synonyms

• (represent in physical form): actualize, concretize, effigiate, materialize, objectify, realize, reify, thingify

• (include or represent): embrace, encompass, enfold

• (unite in a body or mass): fuse, integrate, merge; see also coalesce

Anagrams

• boydem

Source: Wiktionary

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Em*bod"y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embodied; p. pr. & vb. n. Embodying.]

Definition: To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise. [Written also imbody.] Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott. The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin. South.

Em*bod"y, v. i.

Definition: To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce. [Written also imbody.] Firmly to embody against this court party. Burke.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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