Meaning

5 senses

  1. (often, transitive)To give body or shape to something.

    invest with or as with a body; give body to

  2. To construct the bodywork of a car.

  3. (transitive)To embody.

  4. (slang, transitive)To murder someone.

  5. To murder someone.

    (broadly, slang, transitive)To utterly defeat someone.

Examples

2244 sentences

  1. I take care of my body.

    Я піклуюся про своє тіло. — deniko

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  2. A model must have an attractive body.

    Модель повинна мати привабливе тіло. — deniko

    ruУ модели должно быть привлекательное тело. — Selena777

    deEin Model muss einen attraktiven Körper haben. — pne

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  3. Exercise makes your body strong.

    Вправи роблять тіло сильним. — Ahha

    deÜbung stärkt den Körper. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. He has a strong body.

    В нього сильне тіло. — aandrusiak

    ruУ него сильное тело. — odexed

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  5. Where was the body found?

    Де знайшли тіло? — deniko

    ruГде было найдено тело? — marafon

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Origin

From Middle English body, bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ, bodeġ (“body, trunk, chest,

From Middle English body, bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ, bodeġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”). Cognate with Old High German botah (“body, corpse, trunk, torso”) (whence Swabian Bottich (“body, torso”), Bavarian Bottich (“body, torso, carcass; lower part of a shirt or jacket”)).

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Forms

bodies, bodying, bodied, bodied
Base formbody · to body
3rd person singularbodies
Present participlebodying
Past simplebodied
Past participlebodied

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybody
he, she, itbodies

Past simpleLesson

all personsbodied

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bodied
he, she, ithas bodied

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill body

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • invest with or as with a body; give body to:personify

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • dead body
  • a dead body
  • my whole body
  • body was found
  • discovered the body
  • over his body
  • dead body in
  • identify the body
  • whole body
  • the dead body
  • over my body
  • whole body was

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bodgebodilybodybuilderbodybuildingbodyguard

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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