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embody Definition

em·body (em bädē, im-)

transitive verb -·bod·ied, -·body·ing

  1. to give bodily form to; make corporeal; incarnate
  2. to give definite, tangible, or visible form to; make concrete a speech embodying democratic ideals
  3. to bring together into an organized whole the laws embodied in a legal code
  4. to make part of an organized whole; incorporate the latest findings embodied in the new book

embody Synonyms

embody

v.

  1. To actualize

    substantiate, personify, materialize, typify; see complete 1, represent 3.

  2. To organize

    incorporate, integrate, embrace, collect; see comprise, include 1, organize 2.

embody Usage Examples

Object

  • presumption: In practice does the land-use planning system still embody a presumption in favor of development?
  • essence: In the late 1600s, two clans embodied the essence of rivalry and revenge.
  • ethos: In contrast to Borg, McEnroe embodied an amateur ethos.
  • cognition: Interestingly, the concept of ' embodied cognition ' is beginning to have an impact on neuropsychology as well.
  • spirit: He manages to embody the spirit of a man on the verge of a great change with ease.
  • principle: We do, however, broadly support the principles embodied in these parts of the Bill.

Used with why or when

  • what: How can we be ourselves on the spot and embody what we want to communicate?

Adjective complement

  • most: The Satan of Sativa also wrote the Single Convention Treaty which embodies most of Anslinger's Reefer Madness into international law.

Modifying Another Word

  • physically: It helps you keep firmly physically embodied when you are profoundly attuning to the spiritual.
  • perfectly: In that picturesque expression, it seems to me, is perfectly embodied the incurable morbidity of modern ethics.
  • thus: By practicing together, the performers master a common " code " and thus embody a sense of the company's esthetic borders.
  • fully: The work guides us to fully embody the experience of emotional territory by giving expression to our awareness through rooted movement.
  • exactly: Sassoon's burial-place at Mells seems to embody exactly that: a oneness, a concluded peace.
  • completely: Within a minute you feel completely embodied in the robot: what we see and move we become.

Preposition: in

  • convention: The rules of law embodied in these Conventions have been tested in World War II which is ended.
  • legislation: The philosophy now embodied in legislation is, in essence, that the person who creates the problem has to clear it up!
  • code: Defect n. The result of the developer's error embodied in the product source code, initial data, or documents.
  • institution: More and more, personal trust is being transferred to expert systems embodied in institutions or professions.
  • object: In some ways makers can be regarded as performers, whose performance is embodied in an object.
  • machine: This, embodied in a new machine, soon allowed decoding of the Luftwaffe signals.
embody Quotes

  The Law is the true embodiment Of everything that's excellent. It has no kind of fault or flaw, And I, my Lords, embody the Law.

—Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)

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