Bodied
[bɔdid]
Definition
(adj.) having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination; 'strong-bodied'; 'big-bodied' .
(adj.) possessing or existing in bodily form; 'what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind'- Shakespeare; 'an incarnate spirit'; '`corporate' is an archaic term' .
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Definition
(a.) Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied.
(imp. & p. p.) of Body
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Examples
- Half a dozen able-bodied men were standing in a line from the well-mouth, holding a rope which passed over the well-roller into the depths below. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He was able-bodied, and his mother was thin. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- May I ask if they are all large, able-bodied men with powerful voices? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She thought, I suppose, that every able-bodied adult in England ought to know as much as that. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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