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
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.
• (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
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Source: Wiktionary
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
26 June 2025
(adverb) in a dispirited manner without hope; “the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
