Embody

[ɪm'bɒdɪ;em-] or [ɪm'bɑdi]

Definition

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

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

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Definition

(v. t.) 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.

(v. i.) To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.

Checker: Seymour

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Invest with a body, make corporeal, form into a body.[2]. Incorporate, concentrate, compact, integrate, combine, collect into a whole, draw into one mass.[3]. Comprehend, include, embrace, comprise, contain.[4]. Systematize, methodize, codify.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Express, methodize, systematize, codify, incorporate, aggregate, integrate,compact, introduce, enlist, combine

ANT:Eliminate, segregate, analyze, dissipate, disintegrate, dismember, colliquats,disband, disembody

Checker: Rupert

Definition

v.t. to form into a body: to make corporeal: to make tangible: to express (an idea in words): to organise.—v.i. to unite in a body or mass.—p.adj. Embod′ied.—n. Embod′iment act of embodying: state of being embodied: that in which something is embodied.

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Examples

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