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em·bod·y

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–verb (used with object), -bod·ied, -bod·y·ing.

1.	to give a concrete form to; express, personify, or exemplify in concrete form: to embody an idea in an allegorical painting.

2.	to provide with a body; incarnate; make corporeal: to embody a spirit.

3.	to collect into or include in a body; organize; incorporate.

4.	to embrace or comprise.

Also, imbody.

[Origin: 1540–50; em-¹ + body

]

—Related forms

em·bod·i·er, noun

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em·bod·y Audio Help (ěm-bŏd'ē) Pronunciation Key
tr.v. em·bod·ied, em·bod·y·ing, em·bod·ies

To give a bodily form to; incarnate.
To represent in bodily or material form: "As John Adams embodied the old style, Andrew Jackson embodied the new" (Richard Hofstadter).
To make part of a system or whole; incorporate: laws that embody a people's values.

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embody

c.1652, in ref. to a soul or spirit invested with a physical form; of principles, ideas, etc., from 1663; from en- "in" + body.

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embody
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1.	represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist" [syn: incarnate]
2.	represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"
3.	represent or express something abstract in tangible form; "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period"

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version) - Cite This Source - Share This
embody [imˈbodi] verb

to represent

Arabic:	يُجَسِّد
Chinese (Simplified):	体现
Chinese (Traditional):	體現
Czech:	vyjádřit
Danish:	legemliggøre; personificere
Dutch:	belichamen
Estonian:	kehastama
Finnish:	ilmentää
French:	exprimer
German:	verkörpern
Greek:	ενσαρκώνω
Hungarian:	megtestesít
Icelandic:	standa fyrir, gefa efnislega mynd; fela í sér
Indonesian:	mewakili
Italian:	esprimere

Japanese:	具体的に表す
Korean:	구체적으로 나타내다
Latvian:	iemiesot; ietvert sevī
Lithuanian:	įkūnyti
Norwegian:	legemliggjøre, gi konkret form
Polish:	ucieleśniać
Portuguese (Brazil):	personificar
Portuguese (Portugal):	representar
Romanian:	a reprezenta
Russian:	олицетворять
Slovak:	vyjadriť
Slovenian:	poosebiti
Spanish:	encarnar, personificar
Swedish:	förkroppsliga
Turkish:	sembolü olmak

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Embody

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

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