 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
embody
verb
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}, {body forth},
{substantiate}]
2: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was
Hamlet" [syn: {be}, {personify}]
3: represent or express something abstract in tangible form;
"This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic
period"
[also: {embodied}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Embody \Em*bod"y\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Embody \Em*bod"y\, verb (used without an object)
To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.
[Written also {imbody}.]
Firmly to embody against this court party. --Burke.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
177 Moby Thesaurus words for "embody":
absorb, actualize, add, admit, adumbrate, affect, amalgamate,
assemble, assimilate, betoken, blend, body, body forth, brandish,
breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out,
bring to notice, build, build up, coalesce, codify, collect,
combine, come together, complete, compose, compound, comprehend,
comprise, concentrate, concretize, connect, consist of,
consolidate, constitute, construct, contain, corporealize,
corporify, count in, cover, dangle, demonstrate, develop, disclose,
display, divulge, dramatize, emblematize, embrace, enact, encircle,
enclose, encompass, enter into, entify, envisage, epitomize,
evidence, evince, exemplify, exhibit, expose to view, express,
exteriorize, externalize, fabricate, figure, fill, fill in,
fill out, flaunt, flourish, flux, foreshadow, form, fuse,
give sign, give token, go into, have, highlight, hold, hypostatize,
illuminate, illustrate, image, impersonate, incarnate, include,
incorporate, indicate, integrate, interblend, interfuse, involve,
join, lend substance to, lump together, make, make clear, make one,
make plain, make up, manifest, materialize, mean, meld,
melt into one, merge, merge in, mirror, mix, number among,
objectify, occupy, organize, parade, perform, personalize,
personate, personify, piece together, prefigure, present,
pretypify, produce, project, put together, realize, receive,
reckon among, reckon in, reckon with, reembody, reflect, reify,
reincarnate, represent, reveal, roll into one, roll out, set forth,
shade into, shadow, shadow forth, show, show forth, solidify,
spotlight, stand for, structure, substantialize, substantiate,
substantify, subsume, symbolize, syncretize, syndicate, synthesize,
systematize, take in, take into account, take into consideration,
take up, token, transmigrate, trot out, typify, unfold, unify,
unite, unite in, wave
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