Embody

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To give a bodily form to; incarnate.
  • v. To represent in bodily or material form: "As John Adams embodied the old style, Andrew Jackson embodied the new” ( Richard Hofstadter).
  • v. To make part of a system or whole; incorporate: laws that embody a people's values.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify
  • v. To include or represent, especially as part of a cohesive whole
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate.
  • verb-intransitive. To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To invest with an animate body; lodge in a physical form; incarnate; hence, to give form to; formulate; coördinate the elements or principles of; express, arrange, or exemplify intelligibly or perceptibly: as, to embody thought in words; legislation is embodied in statutes; architecture is embodied art.
  • To form or collect into a body or united mass; collect into a whole; incorporate; organize; concentrate: as, to embody troops; to embody scattered traditions or folk-lore.
  • Synonyms To combine, compact, integrate, comprehend, comprise.
  • To unite into a body, mass, or collection; coalesce.
  • To paint with body or solidity. See impasto.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. represent, as of a character on stage
  • v. represent or express something abstract in tangible form
  • v. represent in bodily form
  • Antonym
    Verb Form
    embodied    embodies    embodying   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    represent    be   
    Variant
    embodied    imbody   
    Form
    embodied    embodying    embodiment    disembody   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ahmadi    Mahdi    body    disembody    roddy    shoddy    waddie    waddy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts